Drystone Walling Perthshire

Nov’25 - DRY STONE BENCH (Manse renovation project), Glen Lyon, Perthshire.

This is one half of the main dry stone walling project at this property - the other was the dry stone bench forming the opposite boundary for a new garden area (shared previously)

The original remit was to remove around 35 linear metres of wall and build two new 11m walls coming off the existing wall at right angles. However, as the job started - and as you can see from the photos - the plans evolved and the project became something of a real passion build.

This curving ‘S’ wall was designed to evoke the meandering line of the River Lyon as it moves through the glen. We also built a lunky into this wall, taking inspiration from an original one that sits only around 50m away — a small nod to the traditional details already present in the landscape.

The clients were wonderful & open to ideas and creative input and essentially gave us the brief to “just build something beautiful - at whatever cost.”

The other main feature was the dry stone bench (posted previously). Its form and line draw from the profile of Beinn Dearg (Corbett), which sits above the property - we were quite literally working in its shadow for the entirety of the build