Stone Walls · Jamestown, RI
Stone Walls in Jamestown, Rhode Island.
Building stone walls in Jamestown starts underground, on thin soil over ledge. Conanicut Island — water on every side, between the bridges. We hand-set every stone to suit the shingled coastal houses and antique farmhouses behind old stone walls of newport County, and we build it to still be plumb in thirty years.
Sourcing stone for Jamestown
Stone varies wildly pallet to pallet, so we select it ourselves. In Jamestown, where the local character runs to shingled coastal houses and antique farmhouses behind old stone walls, getting the color and cleft right matters more than the grade printed on the invoice.
Our footprint around Jamestown
Jamestown sits in Newport County, and most weeks we are somewhere in this pocket of Newport County — which means shorter travel, faster site visits, and a crew that already knows how ground behaves around here.
Building walls in Jamestown
Jamestown’s old farm walls run right to the water’s edge — the island vocabulary is dry-laid stone, and salt and wind decide how anything new gets anchored.
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 Jamestown site is left clean at the end of every day.
Schedule and site care in Jamestown
A job in Jamestown is a few weeks of trucks, machines, and people in your yard. We plan staging and protection before day one — drive plates, root-zone protection, a defined material area — and leave the site clean each evening rather than at the end.
Walls that hold Jamestown’s ground
A wall in Jamestown is a drainage structure before it is a stone one. An island of rocky shoreline, stone-walled farmland, and bay views sit on thin soil over ledge, with salt exposure on the open-water lots — 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 Jamestown lot into level, planted, usable ground and — built this way — it stays that way, quietly, for decades.
Questions
Stone Walls in Jamestown, answered.
Most residential work runs one to three weeks on site, depending on size, access, and how much excavation thin soil over ledge demands. You get a real schedule before we start, and we hold it — including the clean-up at the end of each day.
An island of rocky shoreline, stone-walled farmland, and bay views on thin soil over ledge, with salt exposure on the open-water lots. 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 Jamestown stonework flat, plumb, and intact through freeze-thaw.
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.
Yes. Cleiton Landscape & Masonry builds stone walls throughout Jamestown — from Jamestown Village, Conanicut Park, and Beavertail — and across Newport County, and has since 2008. We’re licensed and insured, we work across Rhode Island, and we build from architectural plans with millimeter precision.
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