Craigleith Masonry
Conservation, Repair & Maintenance of Historic Buildings.
Preserving our finest buildings for future generations.

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Case Study - Luggate
Luggate House: Near Haddington, East Lothian

Luggate House is a two and a half storey building constructed of mass stone (sandstone) and lime walls with a traditional slated roof dating from the mid nineteenth century. Around the 1950s, an inappropriate coating of a cement rich ‘dry dash’ was applied to the exterior walls, essentially a ‘straight jacket’ that offered no vapour permeability to handle moisture from wind driven rain......More info

   
Case Study - Trinity
102 Trinity Road, Edinburgh

102 Trinity Road, Edinburgh boasts a delightful ‘B’ listed Victorian Villa and Garden Cottage designed by the Architect James Campbell Walker in 1863 and lies in the heart of the Trinity Conservation Area to the north of Edinburgh City centre. The main house is constructed of stugged, squared and snecked Craigleith sandstone rubble with bull faced Hailes stone dressings with distinctive long and short quoins....More info

   
Pineapple The Dunmore Pineapple, near the village of Airth

The Pineapple, or the Dunmore Pineapple, is one of Scotland's most remarkable buildings. Standing a mile north of the village of Airth, it was built by the 4th Earl of Dunmore, John Murray, in 1761....More Info

   
New Lanark New Lanark Mills

The importance of New Lanark has been recognised by UNESCO as one of Scotland's five World heritage Sites, the others being Edinburgh Old and New Towns, Heart of Neolithic Orkney, St Kilda and the Antonine Wall...More Info

 

   
Loretto School Loretto School, Pinkie Hill, Musselburgh

Craigleith are currently the contractor appointed to carry out all maintenance and repair works on an 'on call' basis at the school. The contract requires that Craigleith permanently have a minimum of four stone conservators on site at the school working under the direction of the Loretto School Estates Manager. This minimum workforce is augmented as and when required, and as and when instructed by the estates manager. More Info

   
Bower House Bower House near Dunbar. 'Catagory A' listed building.

Summary of Works - Replacement ornamental finials and carved elements to urns. More Info

   
Rothsey Rothsey

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Ormiston Bridge Bridge at Ormiston House by Kirknewton, West Lothian

The semi circular single arched masonry bridge which is understood to be C listed and in the order of 150 years old provides the main vehicular access to Ormiston House...More Info

 

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