Serving Faringdon & the Vale of White Horse
Bricklayers and general
builders in Faringdon,
10 minutes from home.
Faringdon is one of our nearest towns: a quick run down the A420 from Highworth. Market Place cottages, Georgian townhouses, 70s estates on the edges: we work across all of it and have been for four decades.
Free site visit. Written estimate in 3–5 working days. £5m public liability. Same three faces from quote to handover.
We serve Faringdon
Faringdon is a 10-minute drive.
SN7 is basically on our doorstep. That short travel time means we can turn up for a site visit quickly, drop back if something needs a second look, and keep travel costs out of the estimate.
Response times to Faringdon
Faringdon enquiries answered the same working day. Site visits typically same week. Urgent structural or storm damage often the same day.
Property types in Faringdon
Faringdon's mix: older stone and part-stone cottages around the Market Place and Church Street, Georgian and Victorian townhouses off London Street and Marlborough Street, mid-20th-century housing at Ferndale and Tucker Road, and modern developments off Park Road and the A420.
Common Faringdon jobs
Regular Faringdon jobs: single-storey extensions on the 70s and 80s stock, garden walls in brick or matched stone, lime re-pointing on older stone frontages, pitched re-roofs, driveway aprons and boundary work.
Services available in Faringdon
The full family-run trade list, in Faringdon.
Every service below is handled by the same three-person family team.
Extensions in Faringdon
Full home extensions handled start to finish: groundworks, brickwork, roofing, plastering.
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Bricklaying in Faringdon
Fair-faced brickwork, garden walls, arches and repairs: built by the family that's been doing it since 1988.
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Stone Laying in Faringdon
Natural Cotswold stone walling and cladding, laid with the eye and hand of a specialist.
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Pitched Roofing in Faringdon
Tiled and slated pitched roofs: repairs and full re-roofs. (We don't take on flat roofing.)
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Plastering & Render in Faringdon
Smooth internal plastering and clean external render by the same three-person family team.
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Patios & Hard Landscaping in Faringdon
Patios, garden walls, turfing, decking and fencing: the outdoor build, handled in-house.
Read moreWhy choose us in Faringdon
Why Faringdon owners keep our number.
Small towns talk. Bad jobs travel fast, and so do good ones. After four decades on Faringdon streets the reputation is what it is.
Closer than most trades.
We're ten minutes up the road, not an hour away. That means faster response, faster call-backs and no van fuel on your invoice.
Family firm, three on the tools.
Dale and his two sons. The three people who quote your job are the three people who build it, start to finish.
40 years of local jobs.
We've been building, extending and repairing property in the SN7 area since 1988. The building stock and its typical failure modes are familiar territory.
Local building issues
Common Faringdon property problems.
Faringdon's mix of older stone frontages and later brick estate housing throws up two very different sets of issues.
Cement pointing on older stone frontages.
Same pattern as most Vale of White Horse towns, older stone re-pointed in cement is now spalling. Lime re-point is the proper repair.
Cracked render on 70s and 80s estate housing.
Original sand-and-cement render is failing across a lot of the later stock. Hack off, re-mesh, re-render.
Failed concrete-tile roofs.
Original interlocking concrete tiles on 70s Faringdon estates are now past their sensible life. Full strip-and-relay pitched re-roofs.
Wobbly boundary walls.
Older garden walls without a proper concrete footing. Take down, dig a footing, rebuild with a proper coping.
In depth
Faringdon in detail.
Faringdon is a small Oxfordshire market town on the A420, sitting between Swindon and Oxford at the western end of the Vale of White Horse. Its historic core around the Market Place and All Saints' Church is largely 17th and 18th-century, in a mix of Cotswold-edge stone, soft red brick and part-timber. There's a substantial listed-building presence in the centre, then a ring of Georgian and Victorian expansion, then post-war and modern estate housing on the edges and along the London Road corridor.
That variety means the right way to do a job in Faringdon depends on where in Faringdon you are. A frontage repair on Market Place needs matched stone and lime mortar. A rear extension on a 1970s house at Ferndale is standard cavity-wall brick and block. A re-render on an 80s house at Tucker Road is sand-and-cement territory. A garden wall between old and new stock has to make a design decision about which side of the transition it belongs to.
We know all of that from having been on jobs across it for four decades. Practically, from Highworth we're 10–15 minutes away, work Mon–Fri 8am–5pm with Saturday availability for smaller jobs, and offer free site visits with written itemised estimates inside 3–5 working days. No flat roofing, no gas, no electrical, no soft landscaping: we'll flag it and refer at the site visit if your job crosses those lines.
Our process
The same four-step process, whether you're in Faringdon or up the road.
Repeatable, honest, and identical for every job: a garden wall or a full extension.
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Free site visit
We come out to your Faringdon property, walk the job with you and answer questions in person.
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Written estimate in 3–5 days
Itemised, in writing, with staged payments set out. No verbal quotes.
- 03
Booked in and started
Materials sourced, timing agreed. The same three-person team on site from day one.
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Snagged and handed over
Site cleared, snag-list walked with you, aftercare explained. We stay reachable after the job.
Recent works
Recent projects in and around Faringdon.
Nearby areas
Also serving these Oxfordshire towns and villages.
Do you cover SN7?
Yes: Faringdon itself and the SN7 villages around it including Great Coxwell, Little Coxwell, Little Faringdon, Buckland and Longworth.
How fast can you get to a Faringdon job?
10–15 minutes from Highworth. Urgent work often same-day; standard site visits inside the week.
Do you work on listed properties in Faringdon centre?
Yes, subject to appropriate listed-building consent. We work in lime, source matched stone and won't do work that skirts the consent process.
Cost of a Faringdon extension?
Priced only after a site visit: every extension is different. Written, itemised estimate in 3–5 working days. Staged payments, nothing due before we start.
Do you work Saturdays?
Standard hours Mon–Fri 8am–5pm. Saturday work is available for smaller jobs by arrangement.
Are you insured?
£5,000,000 public liability and £10,000,000 employers' liability. Certificates on request.
Do you handle building control liaison?
Building control sign-off sits between you and building control directly. On site we assist and guide you through the inspection stages and give the inspector what they need at each visit.
Ready when you are
Get a free estimate for your Faringdon job.
Free site visit at a time that suits. Written, itemised estimate in 3–5 working days. Staged payments, nothing due before we start.