Indian Sandstone on mixed ground toward the Hamble estuary at the catchment’s western edge — the kind found across Sarisbury Green — means natural riven sandstone slabs, each with genuine colour and texture variation, laid and pointed. Locally, the driveway most often needed is one dealing with a genuine mix of period and modern frontages within the same village, and proximity to the Hamble estuary at the western edge of the catchment. It is best suited to period and character properties where a manufactured unit would look out of place, though as a natural stone it benefits from sealing and can need occasional re-pointing over its life.
About Indian Sandstone
Indian sandstone is a natural riven stone, quarried and split rather than moulded, so every slab carries genuine colour banding and surface texture variation that a manufactured product can’t fully replicate. It is laid on a mortar bed over a properly prepared base and pointed between the slabs, and works particularly well on period and character properties where a manufactured concrete or porcelain unit would look out of place next to original brickwork or stonework. Being a natural stone, it benefits from sealing to help resist staining, and like any natural material it can need occasional re-pointing over its life as joints weather — a genuinely different maintenance reality to a manufactured slab.
Best suited to: period and character properties, patios, paths, and driveways where a natural stone look matters
Less suited to: a completely uniform, unvarying colour and texture across every slab
Ground & property in Sarisbury Green
Sarisbury Green sits toward the Hamble estuary at the western edge of the Portsmouth catchment, and the village is a genuine mix of older properties and later estate infill sitting side by side. That gives two distinct types of frontage within the same village — a period cottage on one street and a standard estate drive on the next.
Coastal / flood note: proximity to the Hamble estuary at the western edge of the catchment