Stonemasonry in Cirencester
Cirencester — Roman Corinium — has been a stone town for the best part of two thousand years. Today it's the largest town in the Cotswolds proper, with a magnificent parish church, streets of limestone townhouses and cottages, and mile after mile of stone boundary walls, from grand estate walling to modest garden boundaries.
We're based in Winchcombe and cover Cirencester and the south Cotswolds for the full range of our work.
What we do around Cirencester
- Stone restoration — lime repointing, matched stone replacement and repair on period and listed buildings across the town centre and conservation area.
- Garden and boundary wall repair — Cirencester's long runs of stone walling are showing their age in places; we rebuild failed sections, refix copings and repoint in lime. See stone wall repair.
- Dry stone walling — new and rebuilt dry stone walls in the villages and farmland around the town, built in traditional Cotswold style.
- Stone cleaning — sympathetic cleaning of stone frontages, walls and steps, tested first and never blasted.
- New stonework and carving — dressed stone for extensions and gardens, and hand-carved house names, numbers and date stones.
- House signs and numbers — carved house names, numbers and date stones for Cirencester properties, fixed to an existing wall or built into new walling as it goes up.
South Cotswold stone
The limestone changes subtly as you move south through the Cotswolds — Cirencester's stone tends paler and greyer than the honey tones of the north around Winchcombe and Broadway. It's a detail most people never think about until a repair is done in the wrong stone and shouts about it forever after. Matching stone to the locality — and to the specific building — is the first decision on every job we price here.
Villages and areas we cover
Cirencester plus Stratton, Baunton, Bagendon, North Cerney, the Ampneys, South Cerney, Siddington, Preston, Barnsley, Bibury, Coates, Kemble and across the south Cotswold villages.
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Stonemasonry services in Cirencester
- Stonemasonry — New stonework, extensions, fireplaces and dressed stone features.
- Stone Fireplaces — Bespoke surrounds, hearths and lintels; inglenooks opened up.
- Stone Restoration — Repointing, stone replacement and repair of period stonework.
- Repointing — Failed and cement pointing replaced with matched lime mortar.
- Stone Carving — House signs, date stones, lettering and bespoke carved commissions.
- House Signs & Numbers — Hand-cut house names and door numbers, built in or fixed on.
- Stone Cleaning — Sympathetic cleaning of dirty, stained or algae-covered stonework.
- Stone Wall Repair — Collapsed sections rebuilt, bulges corrected, copings refixed.
- Dry Stone Walling — New walls, rebuilds and repairs in traditional Cotswold dry stone.