🪨 Stonemason in Kinross, Perth and Kinross

About Stonemasons

A stonemason works with natural stone - repairing walls, lintels, steps, and chimneys, repointing lime mortar joints, and carrying out restoration work on older buildings.

In an area with so many stone-built properties, a skilled local stonemason is an essential trade to have access to.

Always check that they use lime mortar rather than cement on traditional stone buildings - using the wrong mortar can cause serious long-term damage to old masonry.

About Kinross

Kinross is a small town on the western shore of Loch Leven, about 15 miles south of Perth.

Loch Leven Castle, reached by ferry from the town, is where Mary Queen of Scots was imprisoned and from which she escaped in 1568 — one of the most dramatic episodes in Scottish history.

The town sits beside the M90 motorway, giving it unusually fast road access to both Edinburgh and Perth, which makes it popular with commuters who value the quieter pace of a lochside setting.

Kinross is a functional market town with a good range of local services, and the loch itself is a national nature reserve important for migratory birds.

Nearby: Dollar, Milnathort

About Perth and Kinross

Perth and Kinross is a large council area in the heart of Scotland, stretching from the lowland farmland of Strathearn and the Carse of Gowrie in the south to the remote Cairngorm peaks and Highland glens of Atholl and Rannoch in the north.

Perth — the 'Fair City' — is the administrative centre and largest settlement, a compact and handsome city at the tidal limit of the River Tay that served as Scotland's capital in the medieval period and retains a civic confidence well beyond its size.

The area divides naturally into Highland and Lowland: south of the Highland Boundary Fault lie the fertile straths and market towns of Strathearn, Kinross-shire, and the Carse; north of it, the landscape rises steeply into the Grampians, with Pitlochry, Aberfeldy, and Blair Atholl strung along the great routes into the Highlands.

Kinross-shire, historically a separate county, sits in the south-east around Loch Leven — a nationally important nature reserve and the setting for one of Scotland's most dramatic episodes of royal captivity — and retains a distinct local identity within the wider council area.

Transport links converge on Perth, where the M90, A9, and main rail lines from Edinburgh, Glasgow, Dundee, and Inverness meet, making the city one of the best-connected in Scotland — though the more remote Highland communities depend on the A9 trunk road and its long-awaited dualling programme.

Nearby: Aberdeenshire, Angus, Clackmannanshire, Dundee, Fife, Stirling