Stone wall building in Somerset — laid by hand, locked by gravity.

A well-built stone wall is a piece of working architecture: a double-skin structure of carefully placed stones, locked by gravity, pinned with smaller fillers, tied through with long throughs and crowned with coping. Properly built it needs no mortar, no maintenance, and lasts two hundred years.

We build and rebuild walls of every kind across Taunton, Somerset and the surrounding counties — field walls and stock-proof boundaries, retaining walls and ha-has, garden walls and churchyard boundaries. Where the original character of a wall calls for mortared construction we work in matched lime mortars; where it should be dry, it stays dry.

What we build

• Full rebuilds of collapsed boundary walls and field walls
• Short-gap repairs after frost or root damage
• Retaining walls, ha-has and revetments
• Churchyard, garden and estate boundary walls
• Coping reinstatement in cock-and-hen, flat or buck-and-doe
• Sympathetic sourcing of matching stone from local quarries

A typical Somerset rebuild

Most of the walls we rebuild were first put up in the eighteenth or nineteenth century from material picked from the same field, so the first job is always careful dismantling. We lay stones out in courses on tarpaulins, photograph the existing coping, and return each piece as close as possible to its original bed. New material — used only where stones have been lost to frost — is sourced from quarries within twenty miles of the site, in matching oolitic limestone, lias or sandstone.

Where we work

From our base in Taunton we work across Somerset — the Quantocks, the Mendips, the Blackdowns, the Levels — and regularly travel into Devon, Wiltshire and Herefordshire for listed and conservation-area projects. See our full areas we cover page.