The demand for walling stone for housebuilding may have fallen in the past year, but houses are still being built. For example, Tythe Farm at Maugersbury, Stow on the Wold, designed and built by Stuart Ray, which has used 105tonnes of split Stonesfield Slate building limestone from Huntsmans Quarries.
And the new 300m2 house built by a local farmer in a 40-acre estate above the picturesque village of Corfe Castle, Dorset. The Purbeck stone from Lewis Quarries was supplied by Brian Lewis, the third generation of his family to operate the quarry. Brian quarries and saws the stone on his own primary and secondary saws and supplies the stone, mostly as scants, to other masons and flooring contractors, as well as producing the occasional memorial.