Naturally beautiful
Ōamaru Stone architectural limestone harmonises seamlessly with both modern and traditional homes, buildings, gardens, and outdoor spaces, offering natural beauty with timeless appeal.
High in quality, durable, and easy to maintain, Ōamaru Stone is a versatile building material and sculpting stone. We specialise in creating custom designs, cutting, carving, and shaping to virtually any size, shape, or specification.
For exteriors, Ōamaru Stone offers a range of options, including:
- External Veneer Cladding & Slip
- Corner Stones
- Decorative Mouldings
- Columns, Balustrades & Railings
- Engraved Name & Date Stones
- Landscaping Products & Sculptures
- Custom Designs
Ōamaru Stone is delivered cost-effectively across New Zealand, directly from Parkside Quarry – our family-owned quarry in Ōamaru, North Otago. Once on site, Ōamaru Stone can be further worked on by stonemasons if needed.
All stone orders are securely packaged on custom-made pallets at the quarry, tightly wrapped and strapped for efficient shipping. Each pallet typically weighs around 1400 kg, ensuring safe and easy handling.
Nature’s palette
Every block of Ōamaru Stone from Parkside Quarry is unique, displaying a range of colours and tones: from creamy ivory limestone, which may feature subtle bronze or gold veining, to rich caramel hues, and vibrant tones of ochre, rust, and copper.
Exterior Veneer Cladding
Ōamaru Stone offers an elegant, enduring alternative to standard exterior cladding, with a choice of Veneer Cladding in various face sizes, thicknesses, and finishes, along with Limestone Slip – a lightweight, thinner cladding option.
Face Size:
- Custom dimensions up to 1300 mm long x 1000 mm high
- Standard: 650 x 90 mm, 650 x 190 mm, 650 x 290 mm, 650 x 390 mm
Thickness:
- Slip: 20 mm – 50 mm
- Veneer: 70 mm – 90 mm
- Block: Custom thicknesses starting from 100 mm+
Face Finishes:
- Fair-faced finish
- Sawn-faced finish
- Sandblasted
- Split and bolstered
Fair Faced Veneer / Cladding
Fair faced limestone veneer is a new Ōamaru Stone product, designed to save our clients time onsite once delivered. Each block is put through a finishing saw at our quarry, which dresses the surface and joggles* each end (*creates joints to prevent blocks from sliding). The smoother fair faced surface weathers well, is highly durable and easy to maintain.
Starting from $70/m² ex quarry
Ivory
Caramel
Autumnal
Sawn Faced Veneer / Cladding
Sawn faced limestone is the most popular Ōamaru Stone veneer. The sawn surface creates a stone with a timeless appearance which weathers well, is highly durable and easy to maintain.
Starting from $70/m² ex quarry
Ivory
Caramel
Autumnal
Split Faced Veneer / Cladding
Split to reveal the natural texture of limestone. Cut to dimensions, Ōamaru Stone Split Faced limestone has a rough, multi levelled and uneven surface – providing a highly textured look.
Starting from $85/m² ex quarry
Ivory
Caramel
Autumnal
Split and Bolstered Veneer / Cladding
Ōamaru Stone limestone blocks sawn to size, then split with a thick blade and chiselled by hand in the quarry, to create a rustic finish.
Starting from $105/m² ex quarry
Ivory
Caramel
Autumnal
Lightweight Dry Stack Stone
Lightweight Dry Stack Stone cut from natural Ōamaru Stone, sliced thin for easy installation with a raw, rough-hewn finish. Perfect for rustic charm.
Starting from $240/m² ex quarry
Ivory
Caramel
Autumnal
Limestone Slip
Ōamaru Stone is also available as thin slips, in a varying range of face sizes from 20mm thick. These are adhered to a substrate to provide a lightweight cladding option. Being a lighter cladding, the delivery costs are lower.
Starting from $57/m² ex quarry
Ivory
Caramel
Autumnal
Corner Stones
A striking architectural detail we call the quoin of a structure. Ōamaru Stone corner stones are large blocks used as decoration to define space – e.g. by visually outlining the corners of a wall.
Starting from $63/unit
Ivory
Caramel
Autumnal
Decorative Mouldings
Architectural features of a building can be beautifully accentuated with Ōamaru Stone decorative mouldings. E.g. Window and door jambs, sills, soffit detail, corbels, wall bands, eave details.
Made to order – Price on request
Ivory
Caramel
Autumnal
Columns, Balustrades & Railings
Ōamaru Stone limestone columns, balustrades and railings are striking visual features – adding elegance to buildings, balconies, stairways and gardens.
Made to order – Price on request
Ivory
Caramel
Autumnal
Engraved Name & Date Stones
Ōamaru Stone custom cuts limestone Name and Date Stones to fit into any space. We also engrave the stones, using the latest CNC technology to ensure the engraving template is accurate and flexible. You can bring us a simple sketch, or call us to discuss your ideas. Choose from a wide choice of font styles.
Made to order – Price on request
Ivory
Caramel
Autumnal
Landscaping Products
There are many ways Ōamaru Stone limestone can be used in landscaping, to enhance gardens and outdoor spaces: from garden walls, garden beds, edging and retaining walls, to rock gardens, plinths and sculptures.
Made to order – Price on request