Case studies

Our Recent Work & Heritage Transformations

Explore our recent projects across period cottages, timber-framed homes, listed buildings, and traditional masonry structures.

Worked examples of the kind of jobs we take on, rather than records of completed projects.

Grade II Listed Farmhouse, Wiltshire

The problem: Trapped damp and severe spalling brickwork caused by modern cement render.
Our solution: Carefully stripped cement render, repointed brickwork with hot-mixed lime mortar, and applied a 3-coat breathable lime render finish.
Result: Dry interior walls, restored structural integrity, and an authentic heritage appearance.

Cottage, Somerset

The problem: Cement render applied decades earlier had sealed moisture into the walls, and internal plaster was lifting away near the floor.
Our solution: Stripped the cement render back to the original wall, let it dry out slowly, then rebuilt the finish in three coats of lime and sand and lime-washed it.
Result: Walls able to breathe and dry out again, with a soft, traditional finish that suits the building.

Old Rectory, North Dorset

The problem: Original lime plaster had been skimmed and painted with a vinyl paint, and patches had cracked and detached from the wall.
Our solution: Took back the failed skim, re-keyed the sound surface with lime, and repaired the lost sections with two-coat lime plaster matched to the surviving original.
Result: A continuous, breathable plaster surface that reads as original rather than patched.

Materials & finishes

The character of traditional lime work

An illustrative example of the materials we work with, not a photograph of a completed Wessex Lime project.

Hemp-lime aggregate within an exposed oak timber frame — Natural insulation and heritage timber

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