Origin – Britain, Lincolnshire
olour / Appearance – Beige/cream limestone with clusters of shell fossil and mineral veining
Use – internal flooring, internal wall cladding and internal architectural applications
Project – The Shoot Lodge, Oxon
Origin – Britain, Cumbria
Colour / Appearance – buff coloured with light coffee mottling and some variety
Use – internal flooring, internal wall cladding and internal architectural applications
Project – The Guildhall City of London
Origin – Britain, Corsham Wiltshire
Colour / Appearance – pale cream in colour and weathers well, consistent appearance
Use – load bearing masonry, cladding, internal flooring, carving
Project – Pembroke College Oxford
Origin – Britain, Wiltshire
Colour / Appearance – creamy white in colour with slight greenish tinge
Use – load bearing masonry, cladding, internal flooring, carving, external paving
Project – Fonthill Abbey, Tisbury Wiltshire
Origin – Britain, Maidstone, Kent
Colour / Appearance – Hard sandy limestone, grey to blue grey in colour
Use – load bearing masonry, cladding, external paving, internal flooring, carving, landscaping, memorial, worktops
Project – Marks and Spencer’s Store, Maidstone, Kent
Colour / Appearance – Top bed is fine grained and very consistent, pale cream or buff coloured that mellows to honey colour and has good bed heights. Basebed is open grained with some shell deposits, light buff/grey colour and hard wearing used for all weathering courses
Use – load bearing masonry, cladding, internal flooring, carving, landscaping
Project – Pembroke College Cambridge, Liverpool Street Station London
Origin – Britain, Isle of Portland
Colour / Appearance– Creamy white. Appearance varies through three different beds, Basebed, Whitbed and Roach with Roach containing the highest level of fossil
Use – load bearing masonry, cladding, external paving, internal flooring, carving, landscaping
Origin – Britain, Isle of Portland
Colour / Appearance– Creamy white. Appearance varies through three different beds, Basebed, Whitbed and Roach with Roach containing the highest level of fossil
Use – load bearing masonry, cladding, external paving, internal flooring, carving, landscaping
Project – British Library
Origin – Britain, Isle of Portland
Colour / Appearance– Creamy white. Appearance varies through three different beds, Basebed, Whitbed and Roach with Roach containing the highest level of fossil
Use – load bearing masonry, cladding, external paving, internal flooring, carving, landscaping
Project – British Library
Origin – Britain, Isle of Purbeck, Dorset
Colour / Appearance – Colours and appearance range from off white, buffs, and browns, to dark green and blue depending on the bed, with varying level of fossil
Use – load bearing masonry, cladding, external paving, internal flooring, carving, landscaping
Project – Windsor Castle
Origin – Britain, Lincolnshire
Colour / Appearance – two types of Ancaster, Hard White, a creamy white fine to medium grained hard limestone quite consistent in colour and texture. Ancaster Weatherbed, mostly buff coloured with blue/grey inclusions, medium to course grained.
Use – load bearing masonry, cladding, internal flooring, carving, landscaping
Project – Black Cultural Archives
Origin – Britain, Lincolnshire
Colour / Appearance – soft pale cream to rich buff colour with some small shell content
Use – load bearing masonry, cladding, external paving, internal flooring, carving, landscaping
Project – Library and Study Centre, St John’s College Oxford
