Patios · Exeter, NH
Patios in Exeter, New Hampshire.
Building patios in Exeter starts underground, on glacial till on the high ground. Front Street Federals and Phillips Exeter’s campus grounds. We hand-set every stone to suit the Federal mansions along Front Street and academy-grade campus architecture of nH Seacoast, and we build it to still be plumb in thirty years.
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 Exeter, that usually means matching color and texture to the Federal mansions along Front Street and academy-grade campus architecture already on the street.
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.
In Exeter, the base is the whole job
Everything you will think about a Exeter patio in ten years is decided in the first two days, before a stone is set. Because the land here is glacial till on the high ground, river lowland toward the falls, we excavate to depth, compact a structural base in lifts, and pitch it precisely so water runs away from the house — not toward it.
On a river town on the tidal Squamscott with mature in-town grounds, that discipline is what keeps a bluestone surface dead flat and the joints tight through freeze-thaw, year after year.
Stone chosen for a Exeter home
Full-color bluestone, thermal or natural cleft, granite, irregular flagstone — each carries a different mood. We help you choose the stone and pattern that belong to the Federal mansions along Front Street and academy-grade campus architecture of Exeter, then dry-lay and adjust on site so the cuts at the edges and around features look intentional, not left over.
Fire features, seat walls, steps, and lighting are designed in from the start, so the finished space reads as one outdoor room rather than a patio with add-ons — whether it sits in Front Street, Exeter Village, and Phillips Exeter or anywhere in town.
What patios cost in Exeter
Two properties on the same Exeter 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 on the high ground 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.
Questions
Patios in Exeter, answered.
Yes. Cleiton Landscape & Masonry builds patios 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.
Phillips Exeter’s campus and Front Street’s Federal mansions set the local benchmark — stonework built to institutional tolerance, not residential. We handle the local checks that go with that as part of the project rather than leaving them to you.
For the homes we work on, natural bluestone and granite win on longevity and character; concrete pavers win on upfront price. We are happy to build either, but we will tell you honestly which one fits the look you are after.
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