This project involved an extensive amount of lime pointing, stone window repairs, chimney repairs, lead-work, roofing and some external lime rendering.

Almshouses photo gallery:

This project involved stone repair and rebuild plus the consolidation of areas of badly deteriorated stonework. This fantastic property is owned by The Landmark Trust.

Stogursey Castle photo gallery:

This large Victorian property was suffering with decaying pointing which was falling out of the walls in places. The original mortar was dark grey to black in colour due to a high concentration of charcoal. The client was keen not to replicate the dark colour of the mortar which gave the property a heavy, gloomy appearance. We mixed a variety of lime mortar pointing samples which were then applied to each elevation to compare the different colours in context. The front elevation benefited with a fine, light mortar suited to the formal, coursed stonework which was originally built with very tight joints. The remaining elevations benefited with a coarser mortar, more suited to the larger joints of the rubble stonework. A hint of red sand was used to create a shade of mortar which complemented the random red stones but didn't overpower the areas of stonework where the predominent stone colour was light grey with a few yellow stones mixed in. The result was a property with a lighter, brighter, uplifted appearance plus all the advantages of the weather-tight, breathable lime pointing.

Priory Lodge gallery:

This house was covered in cement render and suffering with internal damp issues. We removed all the render and re-pointed with lime mortar. Plus new felt and batten to all the roofs to include new lead-work to parapet walls and lime render. The living room was also redecorated with new coving, dado rail, and panel beading and new lime putty plaster was also completed to the porch.

Old Rectory photo gallery:

Over the course of a couple of years we renovated the majority of this Grade 2 Listed three storey house. The photos give an indication of some of the work carried out. This included roof and chimney repairs, removal of many partition walls and forming new ones to help create 2 new en-suits. A new large master bathroom was created, major structural alterations to the kitchen and dining room plus redecoration with new panel beading, dado rails, coving and large ornamental ceiling light roses.

Beech House photo gallery:

This Grade 2 Listed house had the old porch demolished and replaced with a Portico which was hand carved from local Doulting Stone.

Portico photo gallery:

This bridge is located in the grounds of what was a very large country house. The house was demolished after the Second World War but most of the period features of the property remain, although suffering the effects of neglect. There is still a beautiful grotto here beneath the vegetation. This bridge construction is similar to some of the bridges at Stourhead gardens with the unusual “grotesque” style of stonework on the outer walls.

In the gallery photos it shows work underway to rebuild the missing outer skin of one of the arches. I cut the arch stones from random blocks of Doulting Stone that could be found lying around in the grounds. They would have been part of the house many years ago.

Listed bridge repair photo gallery:

The front elevation of this Listed Georgian house needed about 150 bricks replaced, where many of the originals had suffered severe weather damage over their lifetime. Reclaimed bricks were sourced from reclamation yards. Pointing repairs were also carried out. Lime putty mortar was used for all the work.

Front elevation brick work photo gallery:

During the course of 2015 and 2016 we have had the privilege of rebuilding and repairing many aspects of this fantastic property. We have carried out extensive work to the many gable-ends.Four of the gable-ends were so bowed or unstable that they had to be dismantled and rebuilt with lime mortar. A pointing finish was not applied to the mortar during the build because a grinning lime render was to be the final finish.

On 6 other gables we removed all the coping stones and the inappropriate cement render on the back of all the parapet walls. We then stabilised the stonework and rendered the parapet walls with lime render before the lead flashing was installed, and finally the coping stones were replaced onto a lime mortar bed. Alternate coping stones had stainless steel locating dowels drilled into them and into the wall to prevent any risk of movement in the distant future.

Halswell House photo gallery:

We built this little guest house in the grounds of a thatched Manor house. The stone-work was built in straight courses to match the house. Lime mortar was used for the construction of the stonework.

Baltonsborough photo gallery:

This house benefited from having decayed stone replaced at the corner of the front elevation, poor quality corner stones replaced around the window reveals and all the innappropriate cement pointing replaced with lime mortar. Around the rear of the property, I carried out hard and soft landscaping.

White Rock House photo gallery: