D & S Little Stonemasons

D & S Little Stonemasons Carving, Pointing, Building, Fire Places, Gravestones, Restoration etc

One of the largest fireplaces we have ever fitted.The top section alone measured an impressive 3.5 metres in length. Han...
17/12/2025

One of the largest fireplaces we have ever fitted.

The top section alone measured an impressive 3.5 metres in length. Hand-carved at our workshop, it was then carefully transported by J & J Currie Ltd and fitted on site by our team, with the assistance of a Manitou to position it accurately.

Installation was a tight squeeze, but the end result was well worth it.

This bespoke fireplace was created for a castle near Carlisle.

Here’s a job we completed just before the Christmas break on the Craigengillan Estate near Dalmellington.The old tower t...
08/02/2025

Here’s a job we completed just before the Christmas break on the Craigengillan Estate near Dalmellington.

The old tower top was almost a ruin with years of corrosion and weather damage etc so needed a full replacement.

We buy the stone in large blocks and cut it all down to square sizes using our saws at the yard before the masons at the yard can dress and carve the stone.
After all is made we had help from our friends at J & J Currie Ltd who picked the stone up from our yard and hauled it to the job for our on-site team of masons to down take and rebuild this.

A lot of work went into making this and building it.

Roofing works done by LK Roofing who done a great job as always!

Not posted much recently but we have been busy with various jobs all over. A couple of months ago we finished a renovati...
30/10/2024

Not posted much recently but we have been busy with various jobs all over.

A couple of months ago we finished a renovation job at Tundergarth Church, near Lockerbie. Sadly in the field next to this church is where the Lockerbie disaster happened in 1988. However they have definitely developed it and are doing a remarkable job of making the place look great.
It was a pleasure to work on a building that holds so much local history and see it transform to its former glory.

Work there included repoint of the full tower and gable end, replacing tracery windows, various indents as well as relaying copes and skews.

Other pictures are from other work at various places, all stone supplied, cut and built by ourselves.

We have recently had the honour of working on a Castle in Brampton Area. This place is kept absolutely stunning and it h...
17/01/2024

We have recently had the honour of working on a Castle in Brampton Area.
This place is kept absolutely stunning and it has been a pleasure to have been given the opportunity to work here.

The project is still ongoing and there is much more to come in the future but here are some of our recent jobs we done before Christmas.

One of our masons Neil done brilliant carving some of these pieces at our yard and our onsite team done a great job at cutting out and replacing the old indents with these new one.

Another big job just been completed at Dabton Shooting Lodge in the Buccleuch estates near Drumlanrig castle. This was t...
07/08/2023

Another big job just been completed at Dabton Shooting Lodge in the Buccleuch estates near Drumlanrig castle.
This was the house that the current Duke was brought up in and is now being converted into 12 luxury bedrooms and a wedding and events venue.

This job involved a lot of different masonry work, including indenting damaged stone with new, pointing, slap ins, internal staircases and loads of other wee bits here and there.

Once again we really enjoyed doing this job and working for Buccleaugh/Queensberry estates is an honour

Not done much posting for a while so here is a load of smaller work we’ve been working on all over the place. This gives...
09/07/2023

Not done much posting for a while so here is a load of smaller work we’ve been working on all over the place.
This gives you a range of all the things we can do from :
Stone Supply
Carve
Build
Repoint
Restore
Repair

Been working on another couple of bigger jobs will be posting these soon 👍

Staircase recently completed - transformation from old to new! This was one satisfying job 🙌🏻 From start to finish - To ...
02/05/2023

Staircase recently completed - transformation from old to new! This was one satisfying job 🙌🏻

From start to finish -

To enable us to complete this job we took down the full staircase with all the old and damaged stones. A new foundation was laid and then we rebuilt with the brand new steps which you can see below.

You will also be able to see how we mixed the old with the new by making a new coping stone and placing it on top of the old stone which we rebuilt.

To finish the job we pointed the staircase with lime mortar and then came back later for the wet polish which gives it this satisfying finish.

Here is some charity work we done a while back for the Cash for Kids event at the Easterbrook Hall. These were auctioned...
23/11/2022

Here is some charity work we done a while back for the Cash for Kids event at the Easterbrook Hall. These were auctioned off and all money was donated to a great cause!
These were a lot of work but every hour was worth it for the money raised.
The seahorse I believe was donated for the 2015 event and the frog/toad was in 2016.
Doing work for charity is an honour and if we could do it all the time we would!
Please feel free to share, Thankyou!

⚒ Another impressive carving by one of our other fellow stonemasons, Scotty ⚒Around 20 years ago (not to be exact) we we...
13/09/2022

⚒ Another impressive carving by one of our other fellow stonemasons, Scotty ⚒

Around 20 years ago (not to be exact) we were approached by a couple to make them a marriage stone which represents the marriage of a Scottish and English person. We came up with a design very similar to the stone you see below -
The thistle and the rose crossed represents the marriage between a Scottish and English person.
It has been an absolute pleasure to be approached by the same couple again, so many years later to do this for both their children.
This is this third latest edition to the family marriage stones and we wish them all the best for the future.

Here at D & S Little Stonemasons in Dumfries.We were recently asked to supply and build a replacement pillar which was d...
02/09/2022

Here at D & S Little Stonemasons in Dumfries.

We were recently asked to supply and build a replacement pillar which was damaged by a delivery truck here in south west Scotland.

One of the company owners, Dave had the pleasure carving the replacement lion . The whole pillar was cut and produced in our yard from corncockle sandstone and we are delighted with how it looks .

If only every job was as enjoyable as this one

Huge 15 month project finally complete last week on Lincluden Stables. This job involved almost a full repoint to the st...
26/03/2022

Huge 15 month project finally complete last week on Lincluden Stables.
This job involved almost a full repoint to the stables as well as a lot of indents all over the building.
Almost all of the castleations on the 3 towers were fully replaced and a lot of window and door openings were made and built by scratch.
Finally the retaining wall around the grounds was took down, rebuilt and pointed.

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