Richard Staniforth Dry Stone Waller & Garden Waller

I work solo as a waller from my base in Cardiff, Wales. Below you will find a selection of my work.

Deer proofing walls – Margam Deer Park project – South Wales – July 2021 – ‘Thanks for all your work. Everyone who sees it is very complimentary.’ – Margam Park – NPTBC

All the company you need – Margam Deer Park project Summer 2021

Llandaff 1/3 – Replacement red sandstone coping sourced from Home of Stone – Forest of Dean

Llandaff 2/3 rake out and point done by my able apprentice Ellie.

Llandaff 3/3 River Pebble repair, rebuild and point after tree removal.

3 Llandaff jobs almost next door and on the street ‘Thanks… Looks just as we hoped’ ‘The wall looks great’ David – Karen private clients Llandaff.

Margam Deer Park wall – East Lane – a lovely job to do
‘Thanks for this. Looks great.’ Margam Deer Park project Nptcbc #drystonewalling. #heritage #margampark #heritage March 2021

Plasturton Avenue – Cardiff – repair fallen and replace coping’ ‘Thanks for doing lovely job. ‘ Simon and Catherine – private client

A quick small garden repair in central Cardiff

20m dry stone wall disguising the base of steel posts – I’m about done – can’t wait to see what the customer does next stage! Caerphilly – South Wales

Margam Country Park repaired Margam Deer Park project 2021

A few days work restoring ancient deer Park walls at Margam Country Park – East Lane – using fallen stone – plenty more to do!

‘Looking lovely – fair play’ Margam Country Park staff.

Repair and rebuild a 1.9m high wall using existing stone (mainly river pebbles) using a lime mortar mix. Happy wet, snowy January 2021!

Hi Richard thanks for a great job, we are very pleased , I will try and leave a review on yell for you Kind Regards Private client – Kevin & Jane

Further work on a Dr William Price roundhouse garden dry stone walling restoration project in progress 2020-21

Original foundation raised to a finished 20m dry stone boundary wall for a farmhouse drive in Castleton

Mortared century old Cardiff city garden wall repair – lime mortar restoration ‘Thanks it was a delight’ Private client

Hillside garden retaining wall before repair and repair with new steps up to the ‘wilderness’ Cymmer – ‘Thank you. Love the wall and steps… birds very happy you’ve finished :-)’ Private client Gail – Oct 2020

Birchwood Road, Birchgrove Cardiff – curved entry, repair and tidy to the low garden wall on the road… ‘Thanks once again for the wonderful job.’

Take down thirty year old low wall and replace with a substantially higher wall in the Llandaff style using new stone sourced from R P Williams

Garden of Dr William Price Round House Pontypridd before and after …

Garden of Dr William Price Round House Pontypridd after clearance, repair and new steps dry stone build

Newly built 20m dry stone wall in garden in central Cardiff using recycled stone from RP Williams

A lovely job – building a new end of garden dry stone wall high up in the Heads of the Valleys.

Dyrham Park National Trust, Sandy Lane external dry stone wall around the deer park. An extensive repair completed by my Monday team includes a small return to protect the root system of this beautiful ancient oak. Capping stones required to finish!

An afternoon dry stone repair – 100 year old garden wall in Cardiff using original stone ‘Amazing, thanks – Great Job’ – (Private client) John, Pontcanna

Phase 2 Cwm Ogwr Forest wall – 100 metres dry stone boundary wall repaired spring and summer 2019

Wall down – damaged by large bramble & ivy

Llanisien a traditional garden stone wall – a pre Xmas project before the guests arrived!

‘We were absolutely delighted with the work carried out by Richard. He worked methodically and thoroughly and our garden was transformed. The dry stone wall looks so much better than wood fencing or concrete walls!’ (Private clients Elisabeth and Roger – 2019)

Cwmogwr Forest phase II north – first 10m including a ‘smoot’. ‘Excellent work – very happy’ – owner John Williams

Deer Park outer wall to public road Sandy Lane Dyrham Park – mortared coping stones required to finish.

Rebuilding on roadside of Sandy Lane for the National Trust, Dyrham Park

Cwmogwr Forest Wall pre

And rebuilt Phase I

Restoring forest walls in the Ogmore Valley – copes to follow

Above Newbridge with Ken

Building with new locally sourced stone

Working with Ken Young high above Newbridge – thank you Ken!

Working above Aberfan with the South Wales Dry Stone Walling association

My first cheekend in tight space in Derbyshire – with brilliant, generous John Broadhead – Ox Stonecraft, thanks for your time and raising my game – a rapid acceleration in skills

Overhanding skills with Ken Young – there’s a deep lane behind the wall.

National Trust Volunteer Rangers – Dry Stone Waller in Dyrham Park – (the only place I have seen stone sorted quite like this) working with John, Dave and Alan.

Another cheekend in Burford working with Kath Wright – star!

Cotswold Way

Working with Winchcombe school students for Cotswald Conservation Board. Novice students stripped out to foundation and rebuilt the wall with my support. Brilliant work guys!

Always beautiful locations – gapping with a view to the Skirrid and to the Bristol ChannelWorking with Ken Young – Ken’s better side – a project below Twmbarlwm – Newport

After

They stole some tools! Why?

Before

Working solo in Ogmore Valley – December 2018 – 20 metres down – 80 metres to goDSWA Level 2 intermediate qualification day – Strip down and rebuild a cheek-end + 2.5 metres of wall in 7.5 hours of driving rain on the Brecon Beacons – 5 tons of stone shifted and one knackered happy individual.

9 thoughts on “Walling Gallery”

JEREMY STANIFORTH on February 17, 2019 at 11:01 am said:

Well done. Great piccies. A house comes next? J

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John Pasztor on February 18, 2019 at 11:54 am said:

Looks like some real good work there Richard

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Margot Henery on February 12, 2020 at 3:47 pm said:

lovely to see pics of your other work in some fab places, Richard. As the householder where you “Rebuilt garden wall in Pontcanna, Cardiff, using conservation standard black lime mortar”, I just wanted to comment on what a great job you did! Much appreciated!

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Rhiannon on February 17, 2020 at 6:32 am said:

Beautiful craft fantastic pictures

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Rob Doyle on April 13, 2020 at 12:09 pm said:

Saw your nextdoor pontcanna post. Need rear garden wall repairing. If you fancy takkng a look, let us know and we can leave back lane access open. Rob 64 cathedral rd 07435 611880

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- Experienced Dry Stone Waller (South Wales) staniforthdrystonewaller.com on April 19, 2020 at 2:52 pm said:
  
  Hi Rob – Thanks for arranging for me to look at the job – I don’t seem to have your correct email = please sent to richard.staniforth@ntlworld.com
  Best Richard S
  
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Iona Gordon on July 6, 2020 at 1:50 pm said:

Great work. I will recommend our neighbours contact you. Their old radyr stone wall collapsed in the storm last week – early victorian garden wall in Pontcanna
Iona
PS My other half has just finished building a garden pond. We have several bags of bits of slate – off cuts, not chippings. Could you use them at all?

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- Experienced Dry Stone Waller (South Wales) staniforthdrystonewaller.com on July 6, 2020 at 8:11 pm said:
  
  Thanks for the recommendation Iona. And thanks for the slate offer – sadly I will decline as I currently lack storage space. Hope the pond turned out well. I’m a big fan for having them in a garden.
  
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Norman & Sarah Vetter on February 2, 2021 at 11:20 pm said:

Great work on our boundary wall in Radyr in Jan/Feb 2021. Excellent work in some pretty apalling weather. It looks beautiful. We will look at it every day from our kitchen.

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