Stone Walls in Westport, Massachusetts.

A wall in Westport is a drainage structure before it is a stone one. Coastal farmland, salt meadow, and river frontage along the Westport rivers sit on sandy coastal loam over till, with the old farm walls as the local vernacular — 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 Westport lot into level, planted, usable ground and — built this way — it stays that way, quietly, for decades.

Freestanding fieldstone is the older language of South Coast, 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 Westport Point, Central Village, and Horseneck.

Where the farmhouses, shingled coastal estates, and vineyard properties 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.

Westport is stone-wall country — miles of old farm walls set the vocabulary, and our work extends that tradition against meadow, vineyard, and water.

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 Westport site is left clean at the end of every day.