BAYCLIFF LIMESTONE WALLING BAYCLIFF HAGGS QUARRY IS SITUATED ON LIMESTONE ROCKS OF CARBONIFEROUS AGE THE EAST SIDE OF THE FURNESS PENINSULA (AROUND 350 MILLION YEARS OLD) FORM A BETWEEN BARROW AND ULVERSTON AND BROAD SWATHE TO THE SOUTH OF THE OLDER HAS BEEN WORKED FOR LIMESTONE FOR CORE OF THE LAKE DISTRICT MOUNTAINS. CENTURIES. LIMESTONE This band of limestone outcrops in the Furness Peninsula continuing Baycliff is an extremely hard, durable limestone which has HAS BEEN A under the Leven/Crake estuary into the Cartmel Peninsula and up been used for generations to create beautiful building facades, FUNDAMENTAL a broad lode that follows the Kent estuary up to Kendal as well as boundary walling and masonry features of every conceivable turning down into the Arnside and Silverdale AONB. size, shape and form. Typical of the stone from south Cumbria, AND DEFINING it is a distinctive off white colour and its use provides a BUILDING Penrith consistency and cohesion with the existing building vernacular of the area. Whether used as a facing stone, boundary walling, Cockermouth MATERIAL IN orkington quoin, lintol, cill or masonry feature, Baycliff creates distinctive THE SOUTH OF yet subtle architecture that will enhance your project, letting Keswick you make a statement of quality and permanence. CUMBRIA erwentwater Ullswater hitehaven Borrowdale
The limestone from the south of Cumbria is often praised as one of the loveliest rocks to be found in the whole district with its distinctive off white colour differing from the darker grey, browner and yellower limestones from further afield. Natural England has described the effect indermere that the consistent use of such a unique local material has on the built environment, explaining that the widespread use of a specific colour of stone as a building material Coniston Kendal ensures a visual coherence in the area.
“YOU ARE ALWAYS SURE THAT YOU ARE IN SOUTH LAKELAND This local limestone has been a fundamental and defining LIMESTONE COUNTRY BECAUSE building material in the south of Cumbria with the architectural Ulverston OF THE WHITENESS OF THE vernacular of Kendal, Grange over Sands, Ulverston, Arnside, B Q LOCAL BUILDINGS” Kirkby Lonsdale and the many villages and hamlets of south Cumbria characterised over the centuries by this most distinctive Barrow in Furness of local stones. Baycliff Quarry Morecambe
2 3 0 5 10km 4 Baycliff coursed walling All images above are Baycliff squared rubble limestone. 5 SQUARED RUBBLE WALLING COURSED WALLING
LINTOLS & CILLS QUOINS
Baycliff limestone natural stone lintols and cills to any Matching quoins with natural face and end can be detail can be supplied to match the walling stone. supplied to form corners, retaining the traditional look.
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