Walling stone

 We supply premium drystone walling stone and garden walling known for its ease of use, strength, and natural beauty.  Your drystone walls, and garden walls will add structure, presence and beauty to your property, adding timeless value.

 The walling stone is flat ensuring the stone sits tight, making it easier and quicker to build  tighter walls, faster.  This is especially important with the larger drystone walls where a bank is been retained with a retaining wall, or there is little or no mortar being used.

Our walling stone is very dense, with marble like qualities, making it resistant to weathering, and frost.  The garden walls and estate walls will be there for generations.  Build well, use good craftsmen.

Whether you're crafting a pretty garden wall, or a larger drystone wall, our walling stone provides a classic timeless touch to any garden or estate lasting multiple generations.

Pricing

We pride ourselves on offering a range of natural walling stone.

For smaller walls, pillars, or where there is a backing block, there is the garden walling.  There is a choice of 7 inch or 10 inch as required.

For larger free standing traditional drystone walls, and retaining walls with banks of earth behind them, there is the drystone walling, with large through stones, base stones, and coping stones, as well as smaller stone included within the mix. 

This drystone will have a wide range of sizes, going upto about 18 inches or so.  This range of sizes not only helps with the stability of the drystone wall, but also enables versatility within a project to build in stone steps, pillars, arches, and other features.

The quality of the drystone walling stone is of critical importance to the quality and longevity of the drystone wall.

The drystone needs to have:

• Strength to last hundreds of years.
• Good faces providing the flat finish on the outside of the drystone wall - this looks aesthetically pleasing, as well as helping to spill the rain and help prevent larger mammals from climbing it.
• Large through stones.  These larger pieces of drystone go from one side of the wall to the other, binding the two sides of the wall together.
• Flat top and bottom of each piece of drystone, so that the stone sits tight flat, helping to create stability.  
• Base stones - these need to be large, and flat, providing a stable foundation for the wall to be built on.
• Capping stones - providing weight through the centre of the wall, and binding (pinning) the smaller drystone at the top of the wall.

 Drystone walling is a traditional craft where natural stone walls are built with minimal or no use of mortar. All is needed is a wide range of well dressed hard drystone, craftsmanship, skill, and the use of large through stones create a stable solid long lasting wall. This technique results in drystone walls that are not only strong, but also blend seamlessly with the natural environment.

• Sustainability: Our walling stone, it is so strong, and aesthetically timeless, that it will last generations.
• Aesthetic Consistency: Our rustic walling stone is hand crafted and natural, and so blends with the landscape.
•  Adding value: Our natural walling stone is flat with good faces so is easy to build with.

 Visit our quarry to explore the selection of walling stone in person or contact us for more information.

 Some of our work can be seen at The Newt, near Castle Cary, where our stone is used in many of their drystone walls.

Reach out to Stalbridge Quarries Ltd. At info@stalbridgequarries.co.uk  call 01963 364200 to discuss your needs. Our team is ready to assist you in selecting the perfect walling stone for your project.