Ye Olde Stone School
Summer Stone Building Course at The Farm
Ye Olde Stone School returns to The Farm this summer, offering a hands-on stone building course grounded in traditional methods, historic detail and practical skill.
This course is designed for anyone drawn to working with stone — from builders and designers to gardeners, farmers and creatives — who want to learn the logic, craft and rhythm behind traditional masonry.
What You’ll Learn
Stone splitting, drafting, squaring, and bed and face dressing
How to set out and build using traditional hand-hewn techniques
The aesthetics, theory and logic behind heritage stonework
Hands-on experience that builds both practical skills and creative thinking
Ye Olde Stone School was founded to pass on traditional stone hand crafts, including identifying and splitting stone safely, shaping with proportion and gauging, and building stone into walls in ways that engage the senses and please the eye.
Set in the open paddocks of The Farm in Ewingsdale, Byron Bay, students take part in the ongoing construction of a 19th-century-style cottage. The skills taught are practical, physical and deeply connected to the earthiness of pioneer farming and traditional building.
Dates
Summer Term (Friday & Saturday sessions)
January
16 & 17
23 & 24
30 & 31
February
6 & 7
13 & 14
Week break
27 & 28
Time
8:00am – 2:00pm
Course Fees
Single Day: $270
4-Day Course: $770
12-Day Course: $1,570
Bookings & Enquiries
Bookings are managed directly through Ye Olde Stone School.
Email: damian@yeoldestoneschool.com
Phone: +61 425 212 852