Portland Stone
The classic pale English limestone — quietly civic, weathering gracefully indoors and out.
The stone that built London.
Portland Stone is the surface behind much of civic and commercial London — St Paul's, the Cenotaph, half of the West End. Its calm, cream-white ground and near-invisible shell inclusions read as neither modern nor historic. Cut and finished well, it works as convincingly on a garden terrace as it does in a lobby.
Key characteristics
Suitability
Residential, commercial and landscape projects.Material type
Lime StoneColour family
Beige, WhiteVisual style
Civic, quietSurface movement
Subtle shell inclusionsFinish options
Honed, sawn, weatheredBest suited for
Kitchen, Bathroom, Outside Space
Where Portland Stone belongs.
A material that sits happily across residential, commercial and landscape briefs.
Kitchen worktops
Honed and sealed worktops for pared-back, English-country kitchens.
Bathroom floors
Large-format honed floors for classic, calm bathrooms.
Garden paving
Sawn terrace paving and pool surrounds that weather gracefully over decades.
Entrance halls
Continuous floors in halls and stairwells where a civic, timeless surface is wanted.
Portland Stone in place.
See how Portland behaves across kitchens, bathrooms and terraces.