Landscape & Hardscape · Exeter, NH
Landscape & Hardscape in Exeter, New Hampshire.
Front Street Federals and Phillips Exeter’s campus grounds. Across Rockingham County we build landscape & hardscape the slow way — excavated to depth over glacial till on the high ground, drained properly, and hand-fitted to the Federal mansions along Front Street and academy-grade campus architecture that define Exeter.
Exeter and the towns around it
Exeter sits in Rockingham County, and most weeks we are somewhere in this pocket of NH Seacoast — which means shorter travel, faster site visits, and a crew that already knows how ground behaves around here.
The whole Exeter property, built as one
Sometimes the project is not a wall or a patio — it is the whole site. On a river town on the tidal Squamscott with mature in-town grounds, we take a property from rough grade to finished landscape: drainage and earthwork first, because a landscape that fights water never looks settled, then stonework, plantings, and the details that make a yard feel resolved.
Working over glacial till on the high ground, river lowland toward the falls, we start under the surface so the finished Exeter property sheds water, stays dry where it should, and never undermines the stonework above it.
Stone and softscape, together
Walls, patios, walkways, steps, and planting beds succeed when one crew builds them in the right sequence. We coordinate the hardscape and the softscape so the stone frames the plantings and the plantings soften the stone — tuned to the Federal mansions along Front Street and academy-grade campus architecture of Front Street, Exeter Village, and Phillips Exeter and the wider NH Seacoast.
It is the difference between a resolved landscape and two trades fighting over the same ground.
What landscape & hardscape cost in Exeter
We would rather explain the number than defend it. In Exeter, the swing factors are access, excavation depth over glacial till on the high ground, drainage, and protection of what is already growing on the property — the stone itself is rarely the deciding line.
You get an itemized scope after we walk the property — what is included, what is not, and where the money actually goes. No allowances that quietly become change orders halfway through.
Choosing material that suits Exeter
Stone varies wildly pallet to pallet, so we select it ourselves. In Exeter, where the local character runs to Federal mansions along Front Street and academy-grade campus architecture, getting the color and cleft right matters more than the grade printed on the invoice.
Questions
Landscape & Hardscape in Exeter, answered.
Constantly. A large share of our work is executing plans for landscape architects and designers. We build precisely to the drawing and keep the designer informed at every milestone.
A river town on the tidal Squamscott with mature in-town grounds on glacial till on the high ground, river lowland toward the falls. That governs how we found and drain everything we build here — a proper base and drainage go in before a single stone is set, which is what keeps Exeter stonework flat, plumb, and intact through freeze-thaw.
Yes. Cleiton Landscape & Masonry builds landscape & hardscape throughout Exeter — from Front Street, Exeter Village, and Phillips Exeter — and across NH Seacoast, and has since 2008. We’re licensed and insured, we work across New Hampshire, and we build from architectural plans with millimeter precision.
Most residential work runs one to three weeks on site, depending on size, access, and how much excavation glacial till on the high ground demands. You get a real schedule before we start, and we hold it — including the clean-up at the end of each day.
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