Driveways

A herringbone block paving driveway with a diamond feature

Finished August 2026

A light blue hatchback parked on a new grey herringbone block paved drive with charcoal borders, between a house and a fence, leading to a brick outbuilding — Grey herringbone block paving with a charcoal double border, and the car back on the drive.

WorkDriveways
SurfacesBlock paving
AreaBarnsley
FinishedAugust 2026
Photographs8

The drive was dug out first. A membrane went down across the whole area, the sand was brought in ready to spread, and warning tape marked the line of the electric cable running underneath.

The paving is grey block laid in herringbone, framed by a charcoal double border that follows every edge: from the pavement up to the house, round the lawn, and along the fence to the gate. A diamond in the same charcoal blocks sits in the middle of the run.

A channel drain crosses the drive by the gate. At the front door the paving is cut around a recessed door mat, with slate chippings in the bed beside it.

How it was built

8 photographs, in the order the work went in

A dug-out drive beside a house, covered in black membrane with heaps of sand and a strip of yellow warning tape across it — Dug out, with a membrane down and heaps of sand ready to spread.

Heaps of sand on black membrane in front of a house, with yellow tape reading Caution electric cable below across the foreground — Membrane across the whole drive, the sand heaped ready, and warning tape over the line of the electric cable.

A semi-detached brick house with a new block paved drive in front of it, a light blue car parked on the drive and a concrete-post fence along one side — The finished drive from the street.

A light blue car parked side-on on the new drive, beside a front door step with a mat set into the paving, a bed of slate chippings and a lawn edged by the border — At the front door, a door mat set into the paving, with the border running round the lawn.

The back of a light blue car parked on the herringbone drive, with the front door on the left and the charcoal double border running along the lawn — From the front door down the drive: the double border follows the edge of the lawn.

A diamond pattern in charcoal blocks set into grey herringbone block paving, with a charcoal border along a concrete fence — A diamond in the charcoal blocks, in the middle of the run.

A steel channel drain set across the block paving at the far end of the drive, beside the fence — A channel drain across the drive by the gate.

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