Over the years Stephen Pickering TBS LTD has carried out a number of different projects here.
Works have included:
New build stonework to 6 bedroom extension in 1997.
Careful take down and rebuild to high level stonework due to storm damage.
We were tasked to rebuild a 16th Century boundary wall to the Old Lodge Malton, as featured on the Time Team television programme. The wall which was ransacked by Robert the Bruce in 1322.
After a competitive tendering process we were successful with initial works being responsible for a method of accurately recreating this as built wall.
I was able to devise a method that satisfied both the English Heritage scheduled monuments inspector and Ryedale District Council's conservation officer while being workable on site. It involved a series of photos using grids showing the position in the wall and its height from a ???
Walls were all built using some existing stone and replacement Birdsall Calcareous Grit stone, all built in lime mortars. Again I advised using rough core work to the wall top instead of a vulnerable coping stone. We also incorporated a bee skep.
During the course of the works and further to an archaeological watching brief his team found an original stone calvert and the corner of the original Castle tower base, something that the Time Team are unable to do during their investigations.
We are awarded a second phase of the work which included taking down and rebuilding previously repaired sections of the wall.
Learn more about the history of Malton Castle.
