Plastering & Rendering in Stratton

Stratton sits just a mile or two from Bude but has a completely different character — it's an older settlement with a genuine historic core, conservation area status, and a mix of listed and traditional buildings that require a different approach from modern coastal properties.

The conservation area status in Stratton matters practically for rendering work. If you're in the historic core, changing the external appearance of your property — including the render — may need a conversation with Cornwall Council planning before work starts. For listed buildings anywhere in Stratton, Listed Building Consent is required. We'd rather tell clients this upfront than have them discover it afterwards.

For the older stone properties in Stratton, a breathable render is almost always the correct choice. These buildings were built to breathe — stone and cob walls absorb and release moisture as part of their normal behaviour. Sealing them with hard cement render stops that process, leading to moisture build-up inside the walls, spalling stonework, and eventually serious structural problems. A properly breathable render system lets the building work as it was designed to.

Stratton also has plenty of newer residential development — semis and bungalows built in the post-war decades and more recently. These properties have modern blockwork and are perfectly suited to silicone or monocouche systems. Being inland from the coast provides a bit of shelter compared to Bude, but it still gets plenty of Cornish rain.

We work in Stratton regularly — it's five minutes from where we're based — and we're familiar with the planning and conservation requirements. If you're unsure whether your property needs any form of consent before rendering, we can help point you in the right direction.

Properties up by Howard's Lane and the houses tucked behind St Andrew's Church are some of the oldest in the area — granite-and-cob construction, often with original render under decades of unsuitable patches. Stripping these back carefully is a slow job but the right one. The walls are surprisingly thick and the eaves details mean a lot of careful cutting in. It's not work to rush.