Most walls are unremarkable structures serving as boundaries. In Westerly one stonemason is building one as an ode to his family, crew and the craft.

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Phil Brown, a stone waller in Gloucestershire who recently built 550 yard of dry stone walls for landscape architect Jinny Blom, observes: “Stoats and weasels hunt the bottom of the walls.

Stone walls can be expanded around a fireplace to include arched niches for books and display space, he said. “Dark wood trim was popular in the 1970s and 1980s, but people want to do this again ...

He built cow sheds, did the milk run, put up hay and repaired dry stone walls. That was how he came to know a neighboring farmer. Gordon Wilton of Derbyshire, England.