SELECTED WORK

Selected Work

Every wall here was built by hand, stone by stone, to last. From private gardens to churchyard boundaries, each project uses traditional dry stone methods — no mortar, no shortcuts — matched to the stone, the setting, and the structure it’s built to hold. This is a selection of recent work across Oxfordshire and the Cotswolds: new walls, restorations, and the occasional wall still being built.

GARDEN & LANDSCAPE

A Walled Garden in Purbeck Stone

Dry stone walled passage in Purbeck stone with steps at a private Cotswold estate

A dry stone passage in Purbeck stone, leading between garden rooms.

A series of retaining walls, terraces and garden rooms in Purbeck stone, built for a private estate garden. The walling doubles as landscape architecture throughout — steps, seating, a rill, and a swimming pool terrace all framed in dry stone.

Purbeck dry stone retaining wall around a swimming pool terrace

Retaining terraces and pool surround; flagstone copings double as seating.

Stone steps between dry stone retaining walls in a landscaped garden

Steps rise through the retaining walls between planted terraces.

The Arle House garden, filmed by Film Punks for PC Landscapes — dry stone walling by Richard Gray.

Dry stone terrace walls with stone steps at a private estate garden

Terrace walling with sawn stone treads.

Curved dry stone wall beside pool with flagstone coping and planting

Walling, water and lavender: the wall as garden architecture.

Dry stone walls framing a water rill with timber bridge in a formal garden

The rill garden.

New dry stone garden walls with wildflower meadow planting

Wildflower meadow planting against new dry stone walling.

CONSERVATION & RESTORATION

St Andrew’s Church Wall Restoration, Oddington

Conservation and rebuilding work to the historic boundary wall at St Andrew’s Church, Oddington, carried out using traditional dry stone walling methods and locally appropriate materials. The wall was rebuilt dry — no mortar — using stone salvaged from the original structure wherever it remained sound, coursed and coped in the traditional Cotswold manner.

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Before

Before: ivy-bound and failing.

After

Restored churchyard dry stone wall at St Andrew's Oddington

After: rebuilt dry, stone reused.

The restoration work focused on preserving the character and appearance of the original boundary wall while restoring long-term structural integrity using traditional methods and sympathetic materials. Particular care was taken to retain the visual relationship between the churchyard wall and the surrounding historic landscape.

Read more about our repair and restoration services, or see our guide to repairing a collapsed dry stone wall.

CONSERVATION & RESTORATION

Great Rollright Church Wall

Restoration of the churchyard boundary wall at Great Rollright, where years of tree growth had pushed sections of the original wall out of true. The wall was carefully taken down, the stone retained, and rebuilt dry using the same materials, with the church tower standing behind.

Before

Before: the churchyard wall bulging and collapsing under tree growth.

After

Restored churchyard dry stone wall at Great Rollright with church tower behind

After: rebuilt with the original stone, the church tower beyond.

GARDEN & LANDSCAPE

Retaining Wall & Garden Seat, Bladon

A curved garden seat built into a retaining wall at Bladon, a Blenheim estate village where local limestone has been quarried since the Middle Ages. The coping is worked as seating, with stone sphere finials marking each end — the wall becomes furniture.