Front Street Federals and Phillips Exeter’s campus grounds. Across Rockingham County we build stone walls 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.
Problems We Solve
Common stone walls problems in Exeter — solved.
A steep or eroding slope you can’t use.
An engineered retaining wall turns it into level, planted, usable ground that holds for generations.
An existing wall that’s bulging, leaning, or cracking.
That’s a drainage failure, not a stone one. We rebuild on a real footing with a weep system behind it so it never repeats.
You want privacy and a defined property line.
A hand-stacked fieldstone wall frames the land the way New England has for centuries — and looks original to it.
Planning stone walls in Exeter? Call (508) 922-1836 or request your free quote — most consultations are booked within a business day.
Fieldstone matched to Exeter
Freestanding fieldstone is the older language of NH Seacoast, and it is what makes new work read as though it belongs. We source local stone, sort it by hand on site, and dry-stack so each stone carries load to the ones below it — no mortar hiding a mistake. The result carries the settled, irregular character of the walls already standing around Front Street, Exeter Village, and Phillips Exeter.
Where the Federal mansions along Front Street and academy-grade campus architecture call for a cleaner line — a granite-capped seat wall, a mortared wall against a foundation — we build that too, matched to the house and the planting plan.
Beyond Exeter
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.
Walls that hold Exeter’s ground
A wall in Exeter is a drainage structure before it is a stone one. A river town on the tidal Squamscott with mature in-town grounds sit on glacial till on the high ground, river lowland toward the falls — and that is where a wall lives or dies. We excavate to a compacted base below frost depth and build a weep-and-drainage channel behind every retaining wall, so the hydrostatic pressure of a New England winter never gets the leverage to push it out of plumb.
Turn a sloped Exeter lot into level, planted, usable ground and — built this way — it stays that way, quietly, for decades.
Schedule and site care in Exeter
The part nobody photographs: where the pallets sit, where the excavator tracks, and what the property looks like on a Friday afternoon. In Exeter we plan all of that up front and hold the schedule we gave you at the start.
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.
Questions
Stone Walls in Exeter, answered.
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.
Usually, yes. We hand-select from regional yards to match color, cleft, and scale against what is already on the property — which matters in Exeter, where the Federal mansions along Front Street and academy-grade campus architecture tend to be added to over time rather than replaced.
Yes. Cleiton Landscape & Masonry builds stone walls 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.
Both. Dry-stacked fieldstone for the classic New England look and freestanding walls; mortared and granite-capped construction where the design calls for a crisper line or structural tie-in. We recommend the right method for the wall’s job and your aesthetic.
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Planning stone walls in Exeter?
Tell us about your property. We’ll walk the site, talk materials, and give you a clear plan — most consultations are booked within a business day.
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