This beautiful house had lived with crumbling tarmac paths for 40 years and they asked us for our suggestions to repair them. We advised Indian stone with ...
This is one of our latest projects. This retaining wall ranged over 33 metres and took over 20 tons of stone. The constant drainag ...
We painted false window surrounds in blue, planted climbers, brought in potted plants and this enormous stone artefact. The ...
This garden in Oxfordshire had suffered years of neglect. Walls were collapsing and pathways were overgrown and buried. I used ...
The owners asked us to solve the problem of the cracked and raised Victorian red and black tile entrance to the property. In keeping with ...
We were presented with a collapsing hillside full of broken concrete flagstones. The owners said only that they wanted ...
Here, the owners wanted a hint of Derbyshire dry-stone even though they lived in a strict conservation area and ...
We were shown a red sandstone block wall that had sunk at it's leading edge to the road. Water had been leaking for sometime from ...
We were faced with no wall here and an awful lot of clay to retain. The owners were keen to build on this land and ...
Have nothing that you fo not know to be useful, or believe to be beautiful. William Morris 1834 - 1896
About The Stoneworks
I started ' The Stoneworks ' around six years ago having worked for two
years with Sally Hodgson as her assistant in the Peak District National Park.
Sally holds the Dry-stone walling association's (DSWA) Master Craftsman's certificate
and is a qualified instructor. Through her I learned to love natural stone and all that
you could do with it. As with other natural materials such as wood, stone rarely looks...
About Me
I started ' The Stoneworks ' around six years ago having worked for two years
with Sally Hodgson as her assistant in the Peak District National Park.
Sally holds the Dry-stone walling association's (DSWA) Master Craftsman's
certificate and is a qualified instructor. Through her I learned to love
natural stone and all that you could do with it. As with other natural
materials such as wood, stone rarely looks out of place wherever you
use it - hence The Stone-Works.
Whereas Sally is very much a purist and resists the use of cement I felt I could see further possibilities.
This led to me applying the same rigorous attention to detail and design as I
had to walling to other projects in stone such as building patios and water features.
To date we have always relied on word of mouth - there is nothing quite like watching
the work in progress and chatting with the owners. That is still a large part of what
we do but I also felt the need, in this day and age, to record and present examples
of our work for anyone to access.
Unlike many builders we only take on one project at a time and see it through to completion.
I am present on every ' build ' . I am always there in a hands- on capacity.
We both prefer not to rush a project no matter how small. Rather than ' empire building ' we've reached a
stage where satisfaction with the work is more important. Memorably, when asked what he
wanted from his walls, one client said,
" whenever I glance at them I want to take a second look and think- yes, that's beautiful."
That sums it up.
I look forward to designing your next project with you, however big or small, and to providing a free estimate.
Kind regards,
Andrew Readman
Latest Works
Artificial Grass
The finished garden showing Artificial grass with a ...
Bowdon Front Garden
Here the owners wanted to restore the original bold simplicity of the ...
Park Bridge Wall
This retaining wall ranged over 33 metres and took over 20 tons of stone. The constant ...