A newly built double drystone wall of buff Lancashire sandstone running across rough upland pasture, flat bedded stones with natural faces, a row of upright copes along the top, soft side-light, sheep-grazed field and a grey sky over low fells.

Products · Walling and building stone

Walling and building stone

Sandstone for walls that belong in the Lancashire landscape: drystone boundaries, mortared garden walls, extensions and repairs.

Close view of the same wall top: upright copes and a through-stone end visible in the face, buff sandstone with fresh faces.

Stone picked from the face, not the crusher

Walling stone is the stone we keep whole. As the face is worked, pieces with good beds and a usable face are set aside before anything goes near the crusher. The sandstone splits along its natural beds, so pieces come out with flattish tops and bottoms that sit well in a wall.

Close-medium view of a sandstone quarry face showing thin flat beds suited to walling stone above thicker massive beds, warm buff colour, overcast light, a few loose split slabs at the foot. — The beds decide the stone: flat beds give walling, thick beds give blocks.

The products

Random buff sandstone walling stones stacked on a pallet, flat beds and natural split faces, gorse and birch scrub softly behind. — Random walling · Split along the bed, so it sits true in a wall.

Random walling stone

Mixed sizes and shapes, split along the bed, faces left natural.

Good forDrystone field walls, garden walls, rustic mortared walls

A waller's hammer resting on a drystone wall under construction, sandstone pieces sorted on the grass below.

Roughly squared buff sandstone building stones stacked in neat courses on a pallet, pitched faces, more pallets softly behind. — Squared building stone · For courses that line up with an old house.

Squared building stone

Pieces roughly squared on the bed and face, for regular courses.

Good forExtensions, garden walls, repairs where coursing matters

Close view along the top of a buff sandstone garden wall finished with half-round copes, mortared joints, soft light. — Copes finish a wall and shed the rain.

Copes and through-stones

Long, flat pieces for capping a wall and tying its two faces together.

Good forTopping and strengthening drystone and mortared walls

Landscapers building garden and boundary walls; builders matching stone on extensions and repairs; farmers and estates repairing field walls; self-builders who want a stone plinth, garden wall or gate piers.

How it's supplied

Walling and building stone is stockpiled by type and loaded loose or in crates. Tell us which product, what the wall is for, and whether you'll collect or want delivery. Loading and collection or delivery are arranged when we open.

Timber crates and pallets stacked with buff sandstone walling stone on a quarry floor, pieces flat-bedded and hand-stacked, soft light. — Walling stone is picked and stockpiled before anything is crushed.

A pair of square buff sandstone gate piers with plain flat caps at a cottage entrance, weathered old wall beside them for comparison. — Send a photo if you're matching existing stone.

Matching a wall you already have

Sandstone varies from bed to bed, even in one quarry. If you're matching an existing wall or house, send a photo with your pre-order enquiry. We'll tell you honestly how close ours is before you commit.

Close view of the corner where the older weathered sandstone house meets the new squared stone of the extension, coursing lined up, heavy buff-grey stone-slate roof.

Related uses

See it in use

The same wall half-built: two faces rising with hearting between, sorted walling stone laid out along the line on the grass, string lines.

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We're getting ready to open. Tell us what you'll need and roughly when, and we'll be in touch as we open to arrange collection or delivery.

Flat straight-on texture of a naturally split sandstone face, gentle relief, warm honey tones.