Photo gallery: Stone steps and paving, London

This page displays photos of projects completed by the Stone Steps and Paving team.

Click on the photos below to enlarge them. The pictures were taken while we were working on buildings across London. Recently we’ve been working in these areas: Archway, Belgravia, Brentwood, Camberwell, Camden, Hackney, Hampstead, Holland Park, Islington, Kennington, Kensington, Ladbroke Grove, Maida Vale, Marylebone, Putney, Southwark and Wimbledon.

See also: our case studies for more detailed information about our work, and before-and-after photos.

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Completed Yorkstone entrance steps with bullnosed treads between white rendered walls and black railings, Penzance Place, Notting Hill W11
Completed Yorkstone entrance steps between white urn-topped piers, leading to a wreathed front door on Navarino Road, Hackney E8
New buff Yorkstone entrance steps at a Victorian townhouse on Malvern Road, Hackney E8, by Stone Steps and Paving.
Restoration and buff Yorkstone overlay of a Victorian entrance staircase at Aberdeen Park, Highbury N5, a conservation area in Islington, by Stone Steps and Paving.
York stone staircase overlay and restoration
New stone entrance staircase, Hampstead, NW6
Portland stone staircase overlay, recessed coal chute cover and new railings
New stone staircase Maida Vale
New York stone steps
New stone staircase by the Stone Steps and Paving team
New stone entrance staircase, Wimbledon
New stone entrance steps, Camberwell
Stylish new Yorkstone steps, Kensington
New marble front step, Harley Street, Marylebone
New stone steps for a garden
New front door steps and block paving, Brentwood, Essex
New paving and steps, Putney
New stone staircase and railings, Kennington Park Place
New steps and paving, Hackney
New steps for a country property
New steps and paving for a period property, London
New entrance steps for Leighton House Museum, Holland Park
New paving and steps, Archway
New Yorkstone steps, Wimbledon
New Yorkstone front steps, Camden
Rebuilt entrance steps, Hackney
New front door steps, Islington
New stone steps, Brentford home
New stone staircase, Maida Vale
Garden staircase
Georgian stone staircase, Islington

Projects in this gallery include:

  • Navarino Road, Hackney, E8. Complete removal and reconstruction of a Victorian entrance staircase that was letting water into the habitable room beneath. Working under a fully independent scaffold with a temporary roof, we built a new waterproofed substructure with new York stone treads and risers, and carefully reinstating the original copings and capping stones. Completed in four weeks.
  • Penzance Place, Notting Hill, W11. Replacement of a weathered front entrance staircase on a late Victorian townhouse, with single-piece York stone treads with a bullnosed leading edge. We then rebuilt and rendered the walls, and decorated them in Keim breathable mineral paint, and redecorated the railings. All complete in under two weeks.
  • Malvern Road, Hackney, E8. The Stone Steps and Paving team removed the asphalt covering from a Victorian entrance staircase and pathway, and built a new waterproofing system. Then we laid new buff York stone steps and paving to match the original stone. We rebuilt the load-bearing side wall around the new stonework, then rendered and decorated in Keim breathable mineral paint. Completed in three and a half weeks.
  • Aberdeen Park, Highbury, N5. Asphalt removed from the entrance staircase of a mid-Victorian villa in the Aberdeen Park conservation area, followed by structural repairs, a fibrous liquid waterproofing system and an overlay of single-piece bullnosed buff York stone treads and risers, with new York stone copings to the staircase walls and capping stones to the entrance piers, completed in three weeks.
  • Acacia Road, St John’s Wood, NW8. A failed tiled overlay stripped from a late Victorian entrance staircase where water had reached the structure beneath, with structural repairs, waterproofing across the whole staircase, a new threshold to take the extra height, a 50mm York stone overlay with bullnosed edges, and new railings made by our specialist fabricator, completed on site in three weeks.
  • Courtnell Street, Notting Hill, W2. We waterproofed the original staircase with a fibrous liquid waterproofer and overlaid it in Portland stone to suit the stucco lower floors. The team infilled the old coal hole with waterproofed concrete and recessed the coal chute cover into the platform stone to keep the original look. We then repaired the plinth and portico walls, decorated them in white breathable masonry paint and painted the railings in black Hammerite. Completed in 10 days.
  • West End Lane, West Hampstead, NW6. The nosings on this asphalted staircase had been cut off, leaving treads only 22cm deep. We replaced the staircase with larger York stone treads, risers, threshold and paving, and cut a grip strip into each tread. A full waterproofing system now protects the boiler and meters in the room below, and the team recreated the unusual circular piers in concrete cast in a curved timber shutter. Completed in around two weeks.
  • Warrington Crescent, Maida Vale, W9. Earlier overlays had left this curved basement entrance staircase with uneven steps, and the lightwell paving was bridging the damp course. We cut the tapering treads in our workshop from site templates, dug the paving down to the correct level and installed a new gully to improve drainage. The team then curved the new railings on site. Completed in four weeks.
  • Trafalgar Avenue, Peckham, SE15. We replaced the entrance steps of a listed property in a conservation area once Southwark Council had approved our CAD drawings and stone sample. The Stone Steps and Paving team fitted a two-layer waterproofing system over the open vault beneath the steps and path, relaid the path in reclaimed riven York stone, and installed new smooth cut York stone treads and risers. We also had the railings shot blasted and refurbished. Completed in just over two weeks.

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