Patios for homes in Costhorpe
A patio is where the garden actually gets used, so it is worth getting the size and position right before a single slab goes down. We look at where the sun sits through the day, how the space runs off the back door, and whether you want one large area or a couple of smaller ones linked by paths and steps. Then we build it properly — excavated, a compacted base, laid on a full mortar bed rather than dabs, with the falls set so surface water runs away from the house rather than sitting in the middle of the slabs. Sandstone, porcelain, and matching steps, paths and edging so the whole thing reads as one piece of work.
Working in Costhorpe
Costhorpe sits immediately north of Worksop, effectively continuous with Carlton in Lindrick, and it grew around the colliery and the works serving it. The housing is largely brick terracing and semis from that period on regular plots, with later development added around it, and the plots follow the pattern common to purpose-built pit housing — modest frontages designed as front gardens, and longer rear gardens than the house frontage suggests. Converting those front gardens into off-road parking is the most frequent job here, and on the narrower frontages the setting out is what makes it work: the width, the threshold position and the fall to the road have to be right first time because there is no spare space to correct a poor layout later.
What's included
- Positioned around sun, access and how you use the space
- Laid on a full mortar bed, not spot dabs
- Falls set to run water away from the property
- Matching steps, paths and edging