Stone Walls

Walling is hard physical labour.

A standard four-and-a-half foot stone wall weighs approximately 1.75 tons per yard length.

A standard wall is known as a Double Yorkshire Wall. Having two faces of stone packed extensively with hearting and many large and heavy rocks that bridge the two sides and help to tie the wall together. The wall features at “batter” or “taper” of 1:12 – it becomes an inch narrower for every foot it rises. It is capped with a top ridge of stone called copes.

A good wall is validated by the soundness of the foundation, the effectiveness of the “trough”, the tightness of the “copes”, and the exactness of the “batter”.