A stone-walled room with a sash window, a stone chimney breast and a wood stove, and tools on the floor

Lime plastering and stonework in the Forest of Dean

Work on Forest stone cottages and older homes, with materials that suit the building.

A lot of houses round here are built from Forest stone, and they don't always get on with modern materials. We take rooms back to the stone, keep the original features worth keeping, and plaster the walls in lime.

Lime lets solid stone walls breathe in a way gypsum plaster doesn't, which matters in an old house that was never built with a damp course.

All our services

Examples of what we do

Taking rooms back to the stone
Lime plaster, from scratch coat to finish
Repairs to stone walls
Keeping sash windows, fireplaces and cornices
Rendering outside walls
Stone buildings, from barns to cottages

These are just some examples. We do all general building and carpentry.

Photos of our lime plaster and stonework

A cottage room stripped back to its rubble and dressed stone walls, with the joists exposed and a white casement window — A cottage room taken back to the original stone.

A wall of lime plaster scratch coat with its swirled key pattern, beside a sash window — The scratch coat close up, beside the sash window.

A bedroom with smooth new lime plaster walls and ceiling, a sash window looking onto trees and a cast iron fireplace — A cottage bedroom finished in lime plaster, with the fireplace kept.

A high-ceilinged period room with the chimney breast stripped back to stone, original cornice kept, and walls being boarded — A period room mid-renovation: chimney breast back to stone, the original cornice kept.

Rubble stone walls patched with pale mortar either side of a fireplace opening, with a sash window to one side — Stone walls being repaired and repointed around an old fireplace.

A room stripped back to rubble stone with a white sash window and exposed joists above — A room stripped back to the stone, with the sash window kept.

A white-rendered cottage wall with sash windows and a green-painted frame — A cottage wall in white render.

A white-rendered stone cottage wall with a panelled door, a small window and a dark downpipe — A white-rendered stone cottage wall with a new panelled door.

A row of stone-built units with slate roofs, gabled dormers and a white clock turret, under a blue sky — Stone walls and slate roofs on a building with a clock turret, with the site still being finished.

More of what we do

Got a job in mind? Get in touch

Got an old house in mind?

Ring Shaun on his mobile, or send a few photos on WhatsApp and he'll come back to you.

07889 676692 WhatsApp us

Or the landline: 01594 564770