Recent Projects

Norton House Hotel - retaining walls

The client, Ogilvie Construction, required four parallel retaining walls to be built into an embankment at the Norton House Hotel. They were building a new bedroom block, conference suite and leisure complex, and the walls were a key feature of the landscaping.

The stone used came from an old barn from Sherrifmuir. Although old building stone, it has a pleasing roughness to, with a good mix of sizes and shapes. The architect was keen for a contrasting style between the red of the sandstone and green of the turf.

In total 120 tonnes of stone was used, each terrace measured 23m long and stands approximately a metre high, with corners and returns. Lights were built into the returns to illuminate the stairs.

Wallers - Jason Hoffman and Richard Love.

Landscape Architect - Chris Palmer Associates

Free estimates and consultations

We provide free estimates and initial consultations for all walling and landscaping work. If you are interested in redesigning your garden using natural stone, please contact us.

Balvenie Masters of Craft Awards

I am very pleased to announce that I was one of three people short-listed in the stone category for the inaugural Balvenie/Sunday Telegraph craftsman of the year 2011.

This new award aims to celebrate heritage and hand-built crafts over seven materials categories including stone, wood and glass. The judging panel was TV presenter and author, Kevin McCloud, Chairman of the Heritage Crafts Association, Robin Wood, expert crafts photographer, Nick Hand, Editor of The Sunday Telegraph Life, Anne Cuthbertson and the whisky industry's longest standing Malt Master, David Stewart

Further details of the winners are on the Balvenie web site