Stonemasonry in Stow-on-the-Wold
At around 800 feet, Stow-on-the-Wold is the highest of the Cotswold towns — a market town built four-square in limestone around its famous square, surrounded by some of the finest dry stone walling country in England. The villages nearby read like a Cotswold roll-call: the Swells, the Slaughters, Bourton-on-the-Water, Longborough, Broadwell, Bledington, Naunton.
We're based in Winchcombe, about 25 minutes away, and cover Stow and the north Cotswold villages regularly.
What we do around Stow
- Dry stone walling — this is the heart of it here: field walls, paddock walls, garden and boundary walls built and rebuilt in traditional North Cotswold style. See dry stone walling.
- Stone wall repair — gaps, bulges and vehicle-strike damage on roadside walls rebuilt with the original stone; exposure on the wold means copings and wall tops take a battering, and we put them right.
- Stone restoration — lime repointing, stone replacement and repairs on the town's listed and period buildings, and on the cottages and farmhouses of the surrounding villages.
- Stone cleaning — measured cleaning of algae and grime, chosen for soft limestone; especially relevant on north-facing and shaded elevations at this altitude.
- New stonework and carving — matched stone for extensions, garden stonework, and hand-carved signs and date stones.
- House signs and numbers — carved names and numbers for Stow properties and the surrounding villages, in stone matched to the building rather than bought off a shelf.
Exposure, frost and wold-top walls
Stow's altitude is part of its character and part of its maintenance bill. Walls and buildings up here see more frost cycles, more wind-driven rain and more weather generally than the vale below. For stonework that means: copings matter more (an open wall top fails fast), lime mortars must be specified for exposure, and frost-shattered stone is a routine repair rather than a rarity. We build and repair accordingly — it's the difference between work that lasts up here and work that doesn't.
Villages and areas we cover
Stow-on-the-Wold, Bourton-on-the-Water, Upper and Lower Slaughter, Upper and Lower Swell, Longborough, Broadwell, Donnington, Oddington, Bledington, Naunton, the Rissingtons and across to Moreton-in-Marsh and Chipping Norton's western villages.
For a free quotation, send photos through the quote form or call 07741 900066.
Stonemasonry services in Stow-on-the-Wold
- 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.