Blue Lias Limestone
A grey-blue West Country limestone — a hard-wearing, characterful surface for landscape and floor work.
A blue-grey stone with fossils in it.
Blue Lias is a limestone quarried in the West Country of England, prized for its dense, grey-blue ground and the ammonite and shell fossils that turn up in almost every slab. It is heavy, hard-wearing and reads as quietly historic — the reason it turns up in heritage projects as often as new landscape work.
Key characteristics
Suitability
Landscape, entrance halls and heritage projects.Material type
Lime StoneColour family
BlueVisual style
Rustic, consideredSurface movement
Fossil inclusionsFinish options
Sawn, honed, weatheredBest suited for
Outside Space
Where Blue Lias belongs.
A stone for terraces, entrance halls and courtyards that need to look as if they have always been there.
Garden paving
Sawn terrace paving and courtyard floors that weather to a soft, silvery grey.
Pool surrounds
Honed pool copings and surrounds where the fossil detail carries close-up interest.
Entrance halls
Continuous floors in country-house entrance halls and boot rooms.
Heritage restoration
Repair and matching stone for period floors, thresholds and steps.
Blue Lias in place.
See how Blue Lias reads in built landscape and heritage projects.