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Lime Venetian plaster, Marmorino and limewash, tinted to your colour in Birmingham and installed in the Cotswolds by our own applicators.
Zavoré provides Venetian plastering in the Cotswolds for stone cottages, manor houses, barn conversions and village townhouses. We are based in Birmingham, our own applicators travel to install, and the lime based plaster is tinted to your approved sample before it leaves us. The easiest first step is a sample board, or photos of your walls sent to sales@zavore.co.uk with the postcode.
The Cotswolds covers a wide area, so how we plan a job depends on where it is. Where it is a long way from Birmingham we work in blocks of days, with the team staying to lay each coat in order. Dates are agreed once the sample and price are signed off.
The Cotswolds is an Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty stretching across several counties, with Gloucestershire at its heart. Its character comes from the honey coloured limestone that built the villages, from Chipping Campden and Broadway to Burford, Bibury, Stow on the Wold and Painswick. Roofs are often stone slate, and the old wool merchants' houses and churches are among the best known buildings in England.
Inside, these houses are mostly solid walled, with thick stone, lime mortar and plaster, and often uneven surfaces, deep window reveals and low beams. Many are listed, and some villages are conservation areas, so any change to the fabric needs the right consents. Market towns such as Cirencester, Tetbury and Moreton in Marsh add Georgian and Victorian townhouses, while barn conversions and new build houses bring modern plasterboard walls into the same landscape.
That mix is why we choose the finish after we understand the wall. A stone cottage needs to breathe. A new build extension needs reinforced joints and the right primer first. An old wall that has been patched for generations may need skimming before any polished work begins.
We begin with photos, rough measurements and your postcode, which can settle plenty of small questions without a visit. Before we price an installation we survey the walls for substrate, flatness, cracks, damp and movement, and look at access. Stone houses sometimes sit at the end of narrow lanes, so tell us about parking, steps and how materials would reach the room.
After you approve the sample and price, your plaster is tinted in Birmingham and the block of days is agreed. Coats are thin, and each must dry before the next. Cold, damp rooms slow that down, so farmhouses and cottages left unheated need gentle heat during the work. Keep other trades out of the room until we finish.
Our full list of services is on the installation page.
Interior designers and architects working on Cotswold houses can use our specification page. If a local builder or decorator is doing the work, we can sell the materials tinted to colour, with tracked delivery, and trade accounts help with repeat orders.
Helpful reading includes the lime or acrylic comparison and the guide to lime plaster in period and listed homes, which applies well beyond Surrey. Or see every area we cover.
Yes. Our own applicators travel from Birmingham, and for jobs further away they work in blocks of days so each coat is laid in order.
A lime based finish such as limewash or Marmorino. Thick solid stone walls need to breathe, which an acrylic film prevents.
Listing rules cover changes to the building, and you should ask the council before altering fabric. We can talk through a decorative finish over sound existing plaster.
Yes. We tint it to your colour and send it tracked, with the base coats and wax.
To talk about your house, call 07592 929191, Monday to Saturday, 9am to 6pm, or email sales@zavore.co.uk with photos and the postcode. A sample board is the place to start with colour.
Order a sample board tinted to your colour, or send photos and rough measurements of the walls in the Cotswolds and we will come back to you with the right finish and a clear quote.
For a quote, email photos and measurements of your walls to sales@zavore.co.uk or call 07592 929191, Monday to Saturday, 9am to 6pm.
Venetian plastering nearby in Gloucestershire, Truro and Wiltshire. See every area we cover.
We also supply the trade by post, wherever you are. The shop ships tracked across the UK, and the Academy teaches the finishes in Birmingham.
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