Stone Walls · Nantucket, MA
Stone Walls in Nantucket, Massachusetts.
Moors, bluffs, and the most regulated historic district in America. Across Nantucket County we build stone walls the slow way — excavated to depth over deep sandy outwash with almost no native stone — every stone is brought in, drained properly, and hand-fitted to the grey-shingled houses under island-wide historic review that define Nantucket.
Fieldstone matched to Nantucket
Freestanding fieldstone is the older language of Cape Cod, 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 Town, Sconset, and Monomoy.
Where the grey-shingled houses under island-wide historic review 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.
How a Nantucket project runs
A job in Nantucket 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.
Working from a plan in Nantucket
A large share of our Massachusetts work is executing drawings for landscape architects — reading elevations, holding the specified batter and joint, and flagging a conflict before it becomes a change order. Much of it in ongoing collaboration with Jonathan Keep Landscape Design.
Building walls in Nantucket
Nantucket’s Historic District Commission reviews everything visible from a public way — material and detailing are regulated island-wide, so we build to that documentation.
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 Nantucket site is left clean at the end of every day.
Our footprint around Nantucket
Nantucket sits in Nantucket County, and most weeks we are somewhere in this pocket of Cape Cod — which means shorter travel, faster site visits, and a crew that already knows how ground behaves around here.
Questions
Stone Walls in Nantucket, 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.
Yes. Cleiton Landscape & Masonry builds stone walls throughout Nantucket — from Town, Sconset, and Monomoy — and across Cape Cod, and has since 2008. We’re licensed and insured, we work across Massachusetts, 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.
Open moors and bluffs above the harbor and south-shore beaches on deep sandy outwash with almost no native stone — every stone is brought in. 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 Nantucket stonework flat, plumb, and intact through freeze-thaw.
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