Brickwork that
ages right.
Heritage bricklayer working across Cambridgeshire — twenty years on listed walls, period extensions and chimney rebuilds. Lime mortar mixed by hand, brick matched on site, joints tooled the old way.
Five jobs.
Done by hand,
done in lime.
We are bricklayers in the proper sense — only brick, only lime mortar, only old buildings or new work that has to sit next to them. If the job needs cement, we will tell you who to call. It is not us.
Heritage Repointing
Cement raked out, joints brushed clean, lime mortar packed properly and tooled to match the original profile. The right mix for the right wall.
Brick Matching
We hunt down handmade reclaimed stock to match Victorian, Georgian and Tudor walls. No painted-on tone, no shortcuts. Real brick, right colour, right size.
Garden Walls
Boundary walls, raised beds, retaining walls and pierced screens. Built in English bond, Flemish bond or stretcher — whichever the house calls for.
Chimney Repairs
Stack rebuilds, flaunching, lead flashings and pots repointed. Twenty metres up in the rain is where we make our money — and where most jobs fail.
Period Extensions
New brickwork tied into old walls so it doesn't look like a patch job. Hand-picked brick, hand-mixed mortar, properly toothed joints.
Match the mortar,
match the wall.
Every old wall has its own mortar — colour, grain, lime ratio, joint profile. Get it wrong and the wall reads patched for the next eighty years. Below are the six mixes most often called for in our region.
Before, after,
and properly weathered.
A handful of garden walls, chimneys and façade repairs from across Cambridgeshire and west Suffolk.
Twenty years on old walls.
One pair of hands.
Old Brickwork Co. is a one-trade yard in Cambridge. I learned bricklaying in north Norfolk in 2005, fell into heritage work on a churchyard wall in 2008, and have not put a cement-pointed joint in a Georgian wall since.
Most weeks the work is repointing — slow, patient, weather-led. The rest is chimneys, garden walls, period extensions and the occasional carved brick that needs replacing. No subcontractors. If you ring the number on this page, I will pick up.
“The conservation officer asked us who had pointed it. That is the highest compliment a heritage tradesman can be paid — the work looked older than the day before he started.”
Cambridge and across the eastern counties.
Day-to-day work within forty minutes of Cambridge. Longer jobs taken on across East Anglia — heritage briefs further afield by arrangement.
Got an old wall
that needs looking at?
Send a few photos of the wall — close up of the brick and a wide shot of the elevation — and I will come back with an honest opinion on what it needs. No charge for the conversation.