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Made of Stone, restoration company secures new contracts

A DARLINGTON specialist restoration company has secured a number of new contracts to carry out vital work on some of the North East’s most historic buildings.

Specialist technicians from Stone are working across County Durham, Tyneside, Wearside and Northumberland to complete a series of maintenance programmes for buildings dating back thousands of years.

In County Durham, Stone is completing low-level stonework inspections using its specialist laddered access systems on Finchale Priory.

The 13th Century priory, at Framwellgate Moor near Durham City, is on the site of a retired pirate’s hermitage and served as a holiday retreat for monks from Durham Cathedral.

In Sunderland, housing association Gentoo has engaged Stone to complete repairs related to water damage on the outside of high rise flats and, in Northumberland, Stone’s experts are completing high-level stonework inspections on Berwick Castle, which dates back to the 12th Century.

Stone is carrying out a project on English Heritage’s regional headquarters on Newcastle’s Quayside.

Managing director, Dave Stone said: “Maintaining the heritage of attractions in the North East is some of the most important work to us because of our roots in the region.

“The team feels privileged to be able to work on structures dating back thousands of years which require a unique approach and careful repair.”

Stone employs a team of 27 across its headquarters in Darlington and also at offices in Middlesex and central London.

This was posted in Bdaily's Members' News section by Ruth Mitchell .