Peak Moor Sandstone
Quarried on Stanton Moor near Matlock in Derbyshire and situated inside the Peak District National Park. Peak Moor is a fine to medium grained sandstone, predominantly buff in colour with occasional pink markings and / or brown iron intrusions. It is essentially a free stone and therefore almost equally durable in most common masonry applications, […]
Cove Red Sandstone
Quarried at Kirk Patrick Fleming in Southern Scotland. Cove Red is a fine grained, warm terracotta-red coloured sandstone. The stone can have distinct bed markings giving it an interesting characteristic. Cove is suitable for most masonry applications. The quarry has in its past, yielded many thousands of tonnes and at the turn of the 1900’s […]
Stoneraise Sandstone
Quarried from Lazonby Fell near Penrith in Cumbria. Stoneraise Red is a medium grained sandstone with occasional coarse grains and is uniformly salmon pink in colour. This hard material is extremely resistant to abrasion and weathering. Stoneraise can be used for most building and landscape applications. The Stone has been used on the BBC building […]
Wattscliffe Sandstone
Quarried at Elton near Matlock in Derbyshire. Wattscliffe Gritstone is medium grained and uniformly lilac / grey in colour with very occasional buff / white intrusions. It is essentially a free stone and therefore almost equally durable in most common masonry applications whichever way its natural bed is laid. The Wattscliffe stone is particularly suitable […]
Dukes Sandstone
Quarried near Whatstandwell in Matlock, Derbyshire. Dukes Gritstone is medium grained, pink / lilac / purple in colour with beautiful veined bed markings. The stone has excellent weathering capabilities and is most commonly used for facade applications. There are large reserves with long term planning consent. This stone was originally used to provide material for […]
Scotch Buff Sandstone
Quarried near Melsonby in Richmondshire. Scotch Buff is medium grained, buff coloured sandstone with varying degrees of darker bed markings. The stone derives its name from the fact that the quarry is situated only a mile or so from Scotch Corner on the A1. The stone has excellent weathering capabilities and is ideally suited for […]
Asprey’s London
Location: Bond Street, London Architect: Foster + Partners Size: 800 m2 Type: Retail Materials: Cadeby White Limestone
Asprey’s New York
Location: New York Architect: Foster + Partners Size: 800 m2 Type: Retail Materials: Cadeby White Limestone Flooring
Aston Martin HQ
The Aston Martin HQ at Gaydon was designed in collaboration with Aston Martin’s design team to act as the perfect foil to their HQ building. The principles behind the design were that it should complement the dynamic architecture of Aston Martin’s Headquarters: That it should sit in harmony with the Warwickshire parkland setting and that […]
Bonchester Bridge
Hartshaugh Farmhouse is a modern working farmhouse on a family estate in the hills of the Scottish Borders. Designed in a simple classical style, the front facade is arranged symmetrically about a pair of double-height curved bay windows. The house has full stone cladding with traditional detailing, and a slate roof with circular glazed lantern. […]
Centurion House, Bath
This 150 bed student accommodation, was constructed on the former Bath Cricket Club Car park. The building incorporates student flats, study areas, a common room along with an indoor cricket school and gymnasium. The project was designed by Intersect Architects and completed by the Real Group in late 2022. This is the first building in […]
Christchurch Court
Christ Church Court marked the first phase of Paternoster Square and initiated a break-away from the William Holford-designed masterplan that had locked together all the buildings from the post-World War II redevelopment north of St Paul’s Cathedral. Peakmoor was the stone of choice as it is a warm buff sandstone with technical properties that enabled […]
Clumber Bridge
A Grade II* listed bridge of more than 200 years old at Clumber Park in Nottinghamshire is open again, more than two years after it was mostly destroyed by vandals. The National Trust along with architects Rodney Melville + Partners and contractor Croft Building & Conservation completed the project in early summer. The bridge designed […]
Cookstown
A superb example of what can be achieved by top quality masons at Cunningham Stone.
Cumbria Police HQ
Thomas Armstrong Construction has delivered a £4.8m deployment centre for Cumbria Police. Designed by Unwin Jones Partnership of Carlisle and manufactured by Cumbrian Stone in Penrith the facility is part two storeys, part three storeys. Stoneraise Sandstone was chosen for its durability and for particularly being a local stone fitting in with local architecture and […]
Esplanade House, Porthcawl Seafront
One the site of the former Esplanade hotel, the bowed copper façade contrasts with the Dukes stone corner tower and zinc clad duplex penthouses. The Project was awarded the Welsh Housing Award for 2006 given by the Royal Society of Architecture in Wales (RSAW).
Essex University
The largest new building on the campus since 1965, a new wing to the Albert Sloman library, a new student centre and lakeside square has created an important new front door to the University. The building provides an integrated learning centre, library, special collections, reading room, student media centre, one-stop-shop for students facility and a […]
Grosvenor Pulford
The £1.5million refurbishment of the hotel’s main entrance and reception areas included the construction of a two-storey reception area, a new entrance and a mezzanine floor above the reception with a break-out lounge area for guests. For the staircase, Ancaster Weatherbed, quarried in Lincolnshire was used. It is an incredibly durable limestone that lends itself […]
Merchant Building, Glasgow Cross
Designed by architects Gholami Baines, the Merchant Building draws upon the inspirational architecture from nearby buildings and shows off Scotch Buff extremely well above a black granite band.
Mount Allison University
One of the top arts education facilities in Canada, Mount Allison’s new $30-million infrastructure investment in The Purdy Crawford Centre for the Arts provides superb facilities for teaching as well as for performance, and creative pursuits in Fine Arts and Drama. This fifty thousand square foot building is clad in Rock faced Cove Red coursed […]