Clumber Bridge is Restored
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 bridge designed by architect Stephen Wright, dates from the 18th Century and crosses an ornamental lake that was created by the damming of the […]
Cadeby Limestone For Guernsey
Cadeby Limestone has been chosen for a large private house on the coast in Guernsey. Adam Architects and their client have selected the Cadeby Bed 4 as their stone of choice due to its aesthetic nature and the excellent test results. They needed a stone that had good salt resistance as the project is close […]
Ketton Carving Cadeby
Ketton Stone Masonry & Fixing Ltd from Stamford are currently processing supplying and fixing a large amount of cadeby on a private house. The Cadeby was chosen for its exceptionally good weathering properties. They are using it on many areas of the building including copings projecting cornice qnd blustrades. The above shows the fine grained […]
Peakmoor Block Now Available
Following on from the planning announcement in April we are very pleased that quarrying operations have started and block is now available from the BlockStore at Cadeby. Peakmoor will return to being one of our more permanent operations to satisfy demand on this very popular buff sandstone. Suitable for all building uses, Peakmoor graces many […]
Chain Saw produces the largest blocks ever from Cadeby Quarry
Blocks yielded from the new chain saw quarrying method applied at Cadeby are quite breathtaking with some in excess of 10m3.
Client Visits To Stone Block Store
We are receiving rave reviews from main contractors, architects and developers following visits to our block storage facility located within our Cadeby dimensional block stone quarry. This dimensional block store holds stocks of block from all of our quarries and at any given time our aim is to hold block from every one of our […]
Grants Purchase Blockstone Ltd
Grants purchased Blockstone Ltd on the 20th July 2016 which extracts dimensional stone blocks from seven locations within the UK, the furthest North being the Cove Quarry located near Kirk Patrick Fleming in Southern Scotland and the most Southerly being Ancaster Quarry near Grantham in Leicestershire. Adding the Blockstone Quarries to our existing Cadeby Quarry, […]
Quarrying in August
The new chain saw arrived early August and was immediately put to work developing the new tiered area in the Cadeby Quarry. The results have been extremely positive with the output of large clean block being well in excess of 30m3 per day. We believe that Cadeby is now arguably the largest dimensional Limestone quarry […]