Blue Lias Stone Flooring

The blue lias stone offers a smooth luxurious finish and is an ideal flooring option for new builds and building renovation projects.

Blue lias stone flooring. It is a prevalent feature of the cliffs around lyme regis and charmouth dorset as well as somerset particularly around glastonbury and the polden hills. Prices start at 90 per m 2 for external patio quality and up to 180 per m 2 for the very best cathedral quality internal flagstones. Restoring limestone floor tile and grout in silfield norfolk june 9 2020. Blue lias is coloured by the iron content of the rock with layers of limestones and shale.

A fine grained form of limestone dating to the late triassic period white lias stone occurs mainly in somerset. Renovating a grout stained limestone floor in wellingborough march 11 2020. Polishing a large limestone tiled floor in hammersmith january. Blue lias is a beautiful blue stone famous for its fossils especially ammonites.

Colour restored to black limestone patio tiles in stourton june 26 2020. Ashen cross quarry can supply many different finishes for blue lias flooring. Buying reclaimed blue lias flagstones. We also sell crazy paving blue lias at 30 per m 2 please contact us with your requirements and we will be happy to help and advise you.

Blue lias is a sequence of layers of limestones and shale dating from the jurassic period some 195 million years ago. We are continuously replenishing our stock of reclaimed blue lias flagstones. We also provide other stone for flooring and have a range of flooring solutions and services. All of which are traditionally used building and walling stones in the west country and south wales.

Please view our flooring gallery below to see our work for yourself. Lovell stone group carries out the quarrying and processing of their historic blue grey and white lias building stone at their quarry situated at bowden s lane in langport somerset. Blue lias is useful as a building stone and as a source of lime for making lime mortar because it is argillaceous the lime is hydraulic since the mid nineteenth century it has been used as a raw material for cement in south wales somerset warwickshire and leicestershire the cement plant quarry at rugby warwickshire is probably the best exposure of the formation. Flooring work we can provide stone for commercial and domestic flooring.

Our stone blue lias. As one of the few suppliers of this stone we can assure you of a consistent supply of walling stones building stones flagstones and flooring stones at prices that are affordable. This variety of lias is usually found in the somerset and dorset areas typically the lyme regis glastonbury and the polden hills. Pitted jerusalem limestone floor filled and polished in twyford berkshire january 29 2020.

We also provide a continued. All supplied by hadspen quarry. In 2015 we began excavating blue lias stone from our quarry in somerset. More than 100 layers.

Blue lias stone is found in the lyme regis and charmouth areas of dorset as well as somerset.