Devon Walling Stone
Devon Walling Stone
Looking for walling stone in Devon? Exeter Volcanic Stone, quarried at Knowle Quarry near Copplestone, has been used in the county’s walls and buildings for centuries. Whether you’re building a new dry stone wall, restoring a traditional Devon hedge, or need facing stone for a garden or retaining wall, we supply volcanic stone direct from the quarry.
Devon has more hedgerow than any other English county – around 33,000 miles of it. Many of these are “Devon hedges”: earth banks faced with stone or turf, some dating back over 800 years to Saxon estate boundaries. Traditional Devon hedges and walls are most commonly faced with granite, but locally quarried volcanic trap stone – the same material used in Exeter’s Roman city walls, the Exe Bridge and the Cathedral – is prevalent in East of Dartmoor.
Why use Exeter Volcanic Stone for walling?
- Quarried directly from Knowle Quarry, Devon – no long supply chains.
- The same volcanic trap stone historically used in Exeter’s city walls, bridges and local Churches
- Backed by petrological testing of the stone’s mineral composition – see our Testing & Petrology page.
- Available cut, in blocks, in slips or as rubble
- Versatile usage: Dry stone walling, Devon hedge and hedgebank, walling, repairs and new builds, garden walls and rockeries
- It has a distinctive red hue