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Describe the new setting in Chapter 7, including details about the house and the area surrounding the house?

Describe the new setting in chapter 7 including details about the house and the area surrounding the house

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Chapter Seven is set at Uncle Henrik's house, also in Denmark, near the Baltic Sea. His house and the surrounding area are described as follows;

The little red-roofed farmhouse was very old, its chimney crooked and even the small, shuttered windows tilted at angles. A bird's nest, wispy with straw, was half hidden in the corner where the roof met the wall above a bedroom window. Nearby, a gnarled tree was still speckled with a few apples now long past ripe.

The meadow ended at the sea, and the gray water licked there at damp brown grass flattened by the wind and bordered by
at damp brown grass flattened by the wind and bordered by smooth heavy stones.

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