Stone Walls · Hollis, NH
Stone Walls in Hollis, New Hampshire.
Orchard country with old walls lining every back road. Across Hillsborough County we build stone walls the slow way — excavated to depth over sandy loam over stony till, drained properly, and hand-fitted to the antique farmhouses and custom homes on farm acreage that define Hollis.
How a Hollis project runs
Most Hollis homeowners are more worried about the disruption than the stone, and they are right to be. We stage material where it will not kill the lawn, protect the drive and the root zones, and sweep the site at the end of every working day.
Hollis and the towns around it
Hollis sits in Hillsborough County, and most weeks we are somewhere in this pocket of Southern NH — which means shorter travel, faster site visits, and a crew that already knows how ground behaves around here.
Building walls in Hollis
Hollis is a right-to-farm orchard town whose back roads are lined with two-century-old dry walls — that vernacular is the brief for anything we build here.
Much of this work we build straight from a landscape architect’s drawing — batter, height, cap detail, and stone selection exactly as specified — in ongoing collaboration with Jonathan Keep Landscape Design. The Hollis site is left clean at the end of every day.
Sourcing stone for Hollis
The yards we buy from are regional and long-standing, which is how we can match an existing wall or terrace years later. In Hollis that continuity matters — the antique farmhouses and custom homes on farm acreage here tends to get added to over time, not replaced.
Fieldstone matched to Hollis
Freestanding fieldstone is the older language of Southern NH, 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 Hollis Center, Silver Lake, and Depot.
Where the antique farmhouses and custom homes on farm acreage 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.
Questions
Stone Walls in Hollis, answered.
Most residential walls in MetroWest fall between $65 and $130 per square face foot, depending on stone type, height, drainage requirements, and access. Dry-stacked fieldstone and engineered retaining walls sit at the higher end. We give a clear, itemized scope after walking the site.
Apple orchards and wooded rural lots on gentle hills on sandy loam over stony till, well drained on the orchard slopes. 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 Hollis stonework flat, plumb, and intact through freeze-thaw.
Most residential work runs one to three weeks on site, depending on size, access, and how much excavation sandy loam over stony till demands. You get a real schedule before we start, and we hold it — including the clean-up at the end of each day.
Usually, yes. We hand-select from regional yards to match color, cleft, and scale against what is already on the property — which matters in Hollis, where the antique farmhouses and custom homes on farm acreage tend to be added to over time rather than replaced.
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