Materials for
places of permanence.
An edited range of natural stone for homes, gardens, estates and architectural landscapes. Each piece is seen in person before it carries the Assheton name.
Ground. Wall. Edge.
Found. Bespoke.
Many stones are considered. Few are carried. Each part holds only what has earned its place.
Ground
The surface that sets the tone.
Stone for terraces, courtyards, paths, thresholds, garden rooms and external floors. The ground sets the tone of a place before anything else is added. Scale, colour, surface and edge decide whether a garden feels new, settled, formal, quiet or strong.
Wall
Structure, proportion and face.
Stone for garden walls, estate walls, boundary walls, retaining walls, entrance piers and architectural masonry. Bed height, coursing, face texture and jointing decide whether a wall belongs to the place around it or draws attention for the wrong reasons.
Edge
The detail people notice.
Stone for steps, copings, pier caps, thresholds, wall heads, pool surrounds and architectural details. Edges are where quality is often revealed; the detail has to feel intentional, not added at the end.
Found
Stone with time already in it.
Reclaimed and limited pieces selected for age, surface, character and suitability. Some materials cannot be remade; their value sits in the wear, the softened edge and the fact that they already belong to time.
Bespoke
Made for the setting.
Project-specific formats, cut schedules, special sizes and details made through our quarry and production partners. Where a standard list will not do, the material is made properly for the place.
By the worked form,
a way through the Ground.
Ground holds the stones laid underfoot. These are the forms they are worked into — a cross-cut, for those who know the form they are looking for.
- — i6 pieces
Paving
Flags for terraces, courtyards and garden walks. The stone read at length.
- — ii2 pieces
Planks
Long, narrow flags laid in strips — a calmer, more contemporary pace.
- — iii2 pieces
Fragment
Pieces lifted and sorted by hand from the saw bed, laid in a close, broken course.
- — iv4 pieces
Setts
Squared cubes and rectangles for drives, courtyards and thresholds.
- — v0 pieces
Cobbles
Rounded stones of the old courts and kitchen yards.
- — vi2 pieces
Pitchers
Stones laid upright and close, their faces held tight together.
- — vii1 piece
Stackers
Random-length walling in set course heights, for garden and estate walls.
- — viii1 piece
Mallets
Hand-dressed squared blocks for walls, piers and plinths.
- — ix3 pieces
Copings
Weathered copings, pier caps, bullnose and chamfered treads.
Not every stone is drawn in every form. Each piece carries its own working range; where a project calls for something beyond it, that sits with Bespoke.
The best stone is rarely found by scrolling through a catalogue. It is found at the face, in the block yard, on the saw bed, and in the pieces most people walk past.