North Somerset, BS21
Landscaping and property maintenance in Clevedon
Eight and a half miles north on the coast, Victorian, hilly, and exposed to the Channel.
About 9 miles from Winscombe
The ground in Clevedon
Clevedon is a Victorian seaside town built over and around Church Hill and Dial Hill, which is an unusual combination for this area, coastal and steep at the same time. Gardens on the hills are terraced, often behind old stone walls that were built before anyone drained behind them properly, and those are the walls that bulge.
The Victorian housing means high boundary walls, narrow side accesses, tiled paths and original stone that a modern replacement will not match unless it is chosen carefully. Repointing an old wall with the wrong mortar traps water in the stone and does more harm than leaving it alone.
Being on the Channel it takes the same salt wind as Weston, so fixings, timber and finishes all need to be specified for coastal exposure rather than for a sheltered inland garden.
What Tom is most often asked for in Clevedon
All seven services are available across the whole coverage area. These are ordered by what the ground and the buildings in Clevedon tend to need.
- Retaining wallsRailway sleeper and dry stone retaining walls that hold a slope properly, with steps built into them.
- House maintenanceThe list of jobs a property builds up. Fencing, gates, roofs on outbuildings, sheds, repairs and the odd thing nobody else will take on.
- PatiosIndian sandstone, slate and reclaimed stone laid on a proper base, with the falls set so water leaves the house.
- LandscapingWhole gardens designed and built, from clearance and levelling through to planting, turfing and clipped hedging.
Recent work
The kind of thing this looks like
Photographs of Tom's own work. Not necessarily taken in Clevedon, they are jobs from across North Somerset and the Mendip villages, chosen here because they show the work this page is about.
Dry stone terracing with steps and a slab bridge 
Outbuilding re roofed 
Sandstone terrace inside a sleeper wall
Nearby
Tom covers these too, and the villages in between them.