Historically limestone has been used extensively as a building stone in the U.K. The Stancliffe Stone limestone range includes Lincolnshire and Gloucestershire limestones, best known for their use as traditional building stones in Lincolnshire and The Cotswolds, particularly for local house building.

Cotswold Cream and Guiting Gold are both oolitic bioclastic limestones from the Oathill Quarry, Gloucestershire. Their colour ranges from cream/ yellow to gold – the distinctive colours of traditional buildings in The Cotswolds.

Creeton is an oosparite limestone from Lincolnshire, ranging in colour from white, cream and honey through to beige. Three beds from the quarry: Hard White, Silverbed and Banded are combined together to produce traditional walling which is rich in colour and texture.

Cotswold Cream, Guiting Gold and Creeton are all available as both split and tumbled traditional walling in a range of course heights.

Great Tew ironstone is a ferruginous limestone, known as an Ironstone, which has been extracted since the early 17th century from the Great Tew Quarry in Oxfordshire. This stone is mainly used for traditional house building from the south of Oxford to the north of Lincolnshire, as well as restoration projects where conservation grade ironstone is required.

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