Landscape & Hardscape · Hanover, NH
Landscape & Hardscape in Hanover, New Hampshire.
Hanover is hills above the Connecticut River valley with mature in-town grounds, and that shapes every decision here. We build landscape & hardscape on glacial till over schist and granite bedrock, detailed for the Georgian and colonial revival houses plus Dartmouth’s campus architecture they sit beside — hand-set, drainage-first, and made to look like they were always part of the property.
Where the stone comes from
We buy from New England quarries and yards we have used for years, and we hand-pick rather than take a pallet sight unseen. For Hanover, that usually means matching color and texture to the Georgian and colonial revival houses plus Dartmouth’s campus architecture already on the street.
The honest numbers for Hanover
Two properties on the same Hanover street can differ by a third in price, and it is almost never the stone. It is access for machines, the base depth glacial till over schist and granite bedrock calls for, how much water has to be managed, and whether existing planting has to be protected while we work.
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.
The crew Hanover designers trust
Dartmouth’s campus sets the standard for masonry in this town — granite steps, walls, and walks built to institutional tolerance and expected to last a century.
On full-site projects we are frequently the execution crew for landscape architects and designers — much of our Upper Valley work in ongoing collaboration with Jonathan Keep Landscape Design. We read plans fluently, flag conflicts before they become change orders, and build exactly what was drawn.
The whole Hanover property, built as one
Sometimes the project is not a wall or a patio — it is the whole site. On hills above the Connecticut River valley 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 over schist and granite bedrock, we start under the surface so the finished Hanover property sheds water, stays dry where it should, and never undermines the stonework above it.
Building what was drawn
Designers keep sending us Upper Valley work for one reason: what gets built matches what was drawn. We hold the spec, raise conflicts early, and document as we go — including on the Jonathan Keep Landscape Design projects throughout this portfolio.
Questions
Landscape & Hardscape in Hanover, 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.
Dartmouth’s campus sets the standard for masonry in this town — granite steps, walls, and walks built to institutional tolerance and expected to last a century. We handle the local checks that go with that as part of the project rather than leaving them to you.
Hills above the Connecticut River valley with mature in-town grounds on glacial till over schist and granite bedrock. 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 Hanover stonework flat, plumb, and intact through freeze-thaw.
Yes. Cleiton Landscape & Masonry builds landscape & hardscape throughout Hanover — from Hanover Center, Occom Pond, and Rivercrest — and across Upper Valley, and has since 2008. We’re licensed and insured, we work across New Hampshire, and we build from architectural plans with millimeter precision.
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