Large Selection of Finely Carved Wooden Fireplaces

Discover a fascinating selection of wooden chimneypieces to match your period property vision. Finely carved motifs and mouldings on the lintels and jambs reflect the pattern and detailing popylar in the period they were made; with real craftsman’s skill apparent in the ornate carving and gesso work.

Masks and swags were very popular motifs in the Georgian period, and can be seen on a lot of the wooden fireplace surrounds we currently have on display in the showrooms.

We stock a wide selection or original fireplaces in wood, stone, cast iron and marble. We can also offer a wealth of knowledge and expertise so please contact us if you would like some advice.

If you can’t find what you’re looking for online, please call us as stocks change all the time and there may be other items coming in that would be suitable for your project or home improvement.

Visit us at MASCo WALCOT, Cirencester Road, Chalford, Stroud, Gloucestershire, GL6 8PE. Contact us on 01285 760886, or visit our website here.

Featured Item

Fine Georgian Pine & Gesso fireplace with beautifully detailed mask and swag centre decoration typical of early Georgian period. Lots of ornate moulding, with egg and dart below shelf line. 

Dimensions:
Overall Height 137cm, External Width 132cm 
Shelf Length 151cm Return 17.75cm 

Stock Code: FWD 034
Price: £3,750 +VAT

February Promotion

10% off ALL* New Oak Flooring this Febaruary!

Antique and hardwood floors have become the ultimate design signature in recent years. OakieDoakie has been set up by MASCo WALCOT to responsibly source and import the best kiln-dried oak boards available.

*excludes Chene Ancien range

Visit us at MASCo WALCOT, Cirencester Road, Chalford, Stroud, Gloucestershire, GL6 8PE, open 7 days a week.

For further information please contact us on 01285 7606886 or email masco@mascowalcot.com

MASCo WALCOT in Bath Life

Bath Life celebrates the arrival of MASCo WALCOT at the official opening by Sir Roy Strong on 7 May 2010.

Day 2 of the MASCo WALCOT Photoshoot

It’s Day 2 with Andy Marshall from Fotofacade and today we’re in Bath at MASCo WALCOT’s new shop and showrooms

The day begins…calculating the sun positions:

Looking good:

Detail shot of the 1831 Foster & Okely Gothic Fireplace:

…This is one of two magnificent English Painswick stone late Regency Gothic chimneypieces from The Priory, Abbots Leigh, Bristol. For more images and to enquire further visit our website here.

The MASCo WALCOT main shop view, lining up the Regency Gothic fireplace for its close-up.

The MASCo WALCOT Opening Party 7 May 2010

A selection of photos celebrating the launch of MASCo WALCOT

View the complete slideshow on the MASCo Flickr

Pictured above: Cllr Marian McNeir MBE. Sir Roy Strong, MASCo WALCOT MD Steve Tomlin, MASCo WALCOT Director Debbie Kedge.

MASCo WALCOT was officially opened by Sir Roy Strong. Steve Tomlin began working with Sir Roy at his famous garden, The Laskett, over twenty years ago and it was Sir Roy who inspired Steve to move into the field of architectural reclamation and to specialize in original period features and authentic artefacts for garden and home.

Bel Mooney and Robin Allison-Smith

Edward Nash (Nash Partnership), Kevin Harris (MASCo Director), Steve Tomlin (MASCo MD), James Hurley (MASCo Director), Mark Thurstain-Goodwin (Geofutures MD & Founder), Ruth Keily (Geofutures Director)

MASCo WALCOT’s sponsored Lion of Bath, Frank Fantastikous The Big Top Cat, as design by Giffords Circus with the Chair of BANES, Lions of Bath organiser Megan Witty, and Steve Tomlin

Live music from The Vince Freeman Band and Patsy Gamble

Moving forward in uncertain times

Uncertainty can have the negative effect of inhibiting ambition and induce a reluctance to make forward plans.

Conversely all periods of uncertainty provide opportunities for the courageous to stand up and make themselves heard.

It is a very soft and rather indulgent option to ‘blame’ or make excuses when our economy and more importantly our globe needs  purposeful and considered responses to situations now beyond critical. Let it be clear that the time when we could talk about preventative action has now  long past . The fulcrum point over which we have staggered in the last few years means all action from here on is at best a mitigation or damage limitation exercise. 

This cannot be cause for resignation. The human spirit exalts in surviving  and overcoming otherwise indomitable odds. It would be vanity for the pampered and materially advantaged West to surrender itself to despondency. The third world and developing nations have to confront the same resource and global climate problems with far less financial and technological opportunity. The choice from our privileged position is to understand and address the  issues that challenge our planet with creative determination to improve and move forward.

George Monbiot  *   recent  discourse refusing to be fatalistic and despondent or to consider a Luddite perspective is a call to arms that should be embraced. We can change , we must change but with enthusiasm and creativity. Improving and modifying with radical and novel means ,but never with dispair  or preparedness not to succeed to.  Our planet has changed but we are resourceful , mean embittered reaction will defeat only  the gloom mongers and reinforce their own impoverished sense  self-worth.

Moving forward having addressed the negative aspect .

The new Walcot  Yard sustainability Project represents a positive and constructive response to our economic and political imperatives.

Under the guidance of  James Hurley, Kevin Harris and Nash Partnership with our digital Mapping colleagues Geofutures we are building a resource of expertise and thinking that will change the way we plan , design and manage our built environment. Edward Nash has developed ideas of  ‘natural’ sustainable economy that respond to real needs on a local basis which can be replicated nationally. James Hurley is drawing together the very best of commercial practice  and creative European thinking in all matters of material recovery. Expect to hear lots about local remanufacturing from James.

For my part I am  continuing to advocate end of life cycle deconstruction and the use of high quality durable materials so that the buildings of the twenty-first century become the exalted artifacts of the twenty-second century in the way we venerate Victorian and Georgian buildings . Those of my generation need to address their responsibility for the dreadful buildings and architecture of the 1960′s and late twentieth century that  failed before the millenium.

The penance for the generation that enabled and allowed such appalling  design and profligate wastefulness must be rededication to getting it right going forward from here.

Watch the Walcot Project for our forthcoming Manifesto to build our better world.

*     George Monbiot an introduction to his thinking  http://tinyurl.com/ycq22on

Twenty First Century Design: MASCo WALCOT

 

 

 

 

 A warm welcome for MASCo in Bath

Progress gathers pace as the new MASCo Walcot project rises from the former architectural business started thirty years ago by Rick and Jane Knapp. The generosity of spirit  and welcome conveyed by the local people, Walcot Street Traders and civic leaders has been quite overwhelming.

When the work is complete and the display areas and offices properly on stream we can begin to roll out the full extent of our proposals.

Changing the face of architecture, design and material resourcing

Before long we hope MASCo Walcot in Bath will come to represent the very best in Sustainable Architectural Design and Planning Consultancy, all fronted by the new architectural antiques and traditional building materials showrooms at 108 Walcot Street.

The project will bring together in Bath, for the first time, multi disciplinary skills to change the face of architecture, design and material resourcing.

Dynamic Conservation of Bath’s heritage

The very lifeblood of the City of Bath as a World Heritage site must be rooted in conservation and preservation, as a dynamic and progressive movement that enables the Georgian architecture and Roman origins to be maintained as a living environment for the people of Bath in the 21st century.

The essential need is to establish a way to preserve everything that is worthy and be sustainable at a time of global environmental change.

The development of thinking and policies that will enable this magnificent city to prosper within the context of the national framework presents challenges that cannot be ignored.

Integrating sustainability  

We do not exist in a vacuum. However, we have a unique opportunity to address design and planning for the 21st century with new approaches of integrated systems that recognise the need to act and behave sustainably.

Preserving and reusing traditional building elements and materials, diverting them from landfill and finding alternative uses, is the ‘front of house ‘ mission’ for MASCo Walcot together with plans for a comprehensive conservation and sustainable design community to create ‘thinking’ to change our world

Never the ‘Right Time’ …Changing the World

Inflating expectation in a world that overstates most ideas has a horrible tendency to rebound on the proposer.

Contrastingly, we have reached a ‘tipping point’ in the debate on environmental sustainability that means we need to be radical.

It may be that it is too late to avert much of the consequence of neglect and indifference. Perhaps we should be reconciled to mitigation as the most that can be achieved. 

Announcing the MASCo Walcot PLAN

Human resolve and the probability that we can apply technology and science to avert the predicted problems of environment and resource efficiency is always a possibility.

We are going to look very foolish if as yet undiscovered solutions, delivered by research, fail to materialise.

In the meantime to give credence to a personal belief that analysis and negativity are valueless without commitment  to changing  and struggling  against problems that confront society,  MASCo Walcot have a Plan and the resolve to do our part to address the challenge.

Our Grand Experiment gathers momentum

The acquisition of the Walcot Street Yard in Bath enables  a ‘Grand Experiment’.

The Architectural Salvage yard at 108 Walcot  Street will continue to function as a resource for architectural features and period and traditional materials.

Together with conservation skills to support the City of Bath’s status as a World Heritage Site we intend to make the yard a centre of excellence for Architecture, Design and Sustainability .

A Sustainable Plan – but yet to be revealed

The Plan includes a scheme which will change the way Sustainability effects all aspects of our built environment.

It is too soon to expand on the detail of our scheme, there is much to do and lots of work ahead before our exciting proposals can be revealed in-depth. It is never the “right time” to over-hype an intention, but we  believe the need exists to engender both urgency and optimism for change through action.

It is our intention to extend the institution of Walcot created by Rick and Jane Knapp to become a pivotal element in all things of environmental excellence to bring about the change that will alter the way we regard integrated environmental thinking.

Watch this space.

Three new appointments next week…names to be announced !

MASCo ANNOUNCE EXPANSION TO HISTORIC WALCOT YARD

Sustaining Bath’s Heritage

We are proud to announce the expansion of our Cotswold based reclamation operation to historic Walcot Yard premises in Bath.

MASCo brings to Bath 30 years of expertise in design and building conservation and a rock solid reputation for sensitive deconstruction. Taking over the landmark shop at 108, Walcot Street in the artisan district of the city, MASCo will showcase and sell unique artifacts for garden and home as well as supplying original architectural antiques and traditional building materials.

What will MASCo bring to WALCOT?

The acquisition of this internationally recognised site means that reclamation will once again become synonymous with its distinctive Walcot Street venue. Homeowners, builders, designers and architects alike will be treated to MASCo’s inimitable sense of style, scale, history and occasion. The new MASCo shop and showrooms will complement the long-established and larger sister site near Stroud, Gloucestershire. The same outstanding product quality, specialist knowledge and advice will be on offer, and with the added benefits of city centre accessibility.

MASCo’s founding director and renowned Sustainability Consultant Steve Tomlin recognises the huge potential of the Walcot Street site:

“Walcot is MASCo’s opportunity to become Britain’s largest architectural salvage company. We will play an active part in Bath’s future development and Walcot Yard will become a centre of excellence for Design and Architecture. Equally important to us is the ongoing sustainability debate which will be given new impetus by bringing reclamation back to Bath.”

MASCo at WALCOT opens at 9am Saturday 1^st May 2010

Steve Tomlin is available for interview. 01285 760886

walcot.com coming soon!