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Stone walls

Old walls still standing.

Middle Tennessee is full of dry-laid stone walls built a century or more ago. The good ones share three things: a footing, drainage behind them, and stones laid to lean into the hill.

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A wall of large stacked limestone blocks

Three kinds.

Dry-laid

Fieldstone

No mortar. Stones fitted by hand, battered back into the slope. The traditional Tennessee wall.

Mortared

Cut limestone

Formal walls and steps near the house, with weep holes for drainage.

Engineered

Over four feet

Taller walls are engineered, often with geogrid behind them, and permitted where required.

Wall ranges.

01
Dry-laid fieldstone wall

Per face square foot.

per sq ft
$45–70
02
Mortared limestone wall

Per face square foot.

per sq ft
$60–85
03
Stone steps

Per step, slabs on a drained base.

per step
$650–1,100

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