Drystone

We quarry and supply the best drystone walling stone in the West Country.  Our walling stone is widely used in Somerset, Dorset, and Wiltshire, where our type of drystone has been quarried, and crafted over the last few millennia shaping our villages, farmsteads and country houses.

 This is the classic country garden wall stone, whether for a cottage garden or a stately home. 

We have numerous grades of natural walling stone:

• Drystone - For large drystone walls with footings, through stones, face stones, and copings all within the mix upto about 20 inches in size - £150 per tonne + VAT
• 10 inch drystone - for smaller drystone walls - £210 per tonne + VAT
• 7 inch garden wall stone - with smaller bed heights as well.  This is ideal for small walls and may need lime based mortar, and or a backing block - £250 per tonne + VAT

The quality of the natural walling stone enables you to build elaborate walls, retaining walls, arches, ha-has, and walled gardens.  It will transform your garden by adding natural structure that sits easily in the landscape.  

The garden wall built of our walling stone will last hundreds of years as the stone is resistant to weathering, water, and frost.  

The walling stone is:

• Flat, helping to make it easier to lay, and keep the walls stable. 
• Each piece has a straight face

This ensures that it easy and quick to build good looking large stable walls, tighter and faster.  

Our drystone is naturally flat and comes in a wide range of widths, going upto about 20 inches or so.  This range of sizes not only helps with the stability of the drystone wall with the dry-joints interlocking, but also enables versatility within a project.  

Within this drystone supplied by us, there are:

• Large through stones (helping with interlocking both sides of the wall)
• Base-stones (for the foundations) - large, flat, and stable
• Large amount of face stones - this makes it quicker to build a good looking drystone wall as almost every piece of drystone has a good face
• Coping-stones (for capping the wall off) with either a cock and hen style or flat top
• A range of sizes of stones, helping with the batter of the wall (it reducing in width as the height increases)

For smaller garden walls, or where there is a backing block, there is the cut and dressed drystone.  There is a choice of 7 inch or 10 inch as required.  If the wall has any height, then mortar with lime will be needed. 

The 7 inch bed width, will only have a bed height of 4 inches or so at most.  This gives the wall a very tight traditional cottage garden feel.