Heritage Plaster Services – Craftsmen in Plaster
Heritage Plaster Services are specialists in restoring, repairing, and creating all aspects of traditional decorative plaster and mouldings.
Heritage Plaster Services can supply plaster cornice, coving or ceiling roses, whether it’s from our exquisite range of standard classical Victorian, Georgian or Regency period designs or to your bespoke vision.


Heritage Plaster Services – Craftsmen in Plaster
Heritage Plaster Services are specialists in restoring, repairing, and creating all aspects of traditional decorative plaster and mouldings.
Heritage Plaster Services can supply plaster cornice, coving or ceiling roses, whether it’s from our exquisite range of standard classical Victorian, Georgian or Regency period designs or to your bespoke vision.
Whatever period building you have, you can be sure your work will be accomplished by experts, using the most appropriate methods and materials. Heritage Plaster Services has 30 years of experience and research which informs our knowledge of traditional fibrous plastering and decorative plaster techniques both old and new.
To ensure your restoration project is faithful to the original design our aim on every project is to retain the vision of the architects, designers and artists who came before us, employing their techniques where possible, and incorporating new technology where appropriate.
Our fibrous plaster specialists will handle your project from first plans right through to completion. Our skilled designers and expert artisans can create handmade plaster mouldings for any project, big or small, from the faithful recreation of classic styling to modern visionary designs.
Featured Services


Modelling
Clay Modelling is used to reproduce or create architectural ornamental decorations and is considered an art form which dates back to pre-history.


Bespoke Ceilings
The Tudor and Jacobean periods (1485 – 1625) marked the evolution away from the medieval styles of building toward more sophisticated structures with classicised decoration.


Architectural External Mouldings
Architectural external mouldings are just as important to the exterior of buildings as to the interior, from the simplest sand & cement moulding architrave to the grandest entablature.


Lime Plaster
Lime Plaster Conservation Restoration. Virtually all old buildings were constructed using lime, which was used in conjunction with many materials according to regional difference.
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Heritage Plaster Projects
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Soho House, Dean Street
Project Details Location:Dean Street, London Project Type: Restoration, Bespoke Moulding, lime plastering
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Everyman Theatre, Cheltenham Town Centre
Project Details Location:Cheltenham Project Type: Restoration
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Maison Colbert
Heritage Plaster Services supplied and installed a varied array of bespoke plaster mouldings to the interior, including the niches and alcoves, along with various panelled designs and the bespoke inner entrance way. As well as the interior works we also supplied and installed the large corbels to the exterior shopfronts. Profile: The site, in an...
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Royal College of Music, London
Project Details
Location:
Kensington, London SW7 2BSProject Type:
Restoration, Bespoke MouldingThe purpose of these works was to allow the full renovation of the main concert hall.
The original plaster casts/mouldings that made up the panelled ceiling had, by the simple passage of time, deteriorated and had become dangerous in their fragility.
The entire ceiling area required to be removed and replaced. The new panels that were to replace the old ceiling in its entirety were designed to replicate the original ceiling in shape and general form, but at the same time to allow the introduction of modern sound, light and heating systems.
These works therefore consisted of the manufacture of moulds, the casting of new panels from these moulds, and the site assembly of these panels, as separate units to make up the complete ceiling.
The design of these moulds also allowed for the incorporation of air conditioning nozzles, access panels for maintenance purposes, access panels for lighting, sound and scenery pulleys, and a complete set out of acoustic panels as devised by Cole Jarman Associates.
As a result of these tests alterations to the panel designs were made, with the inclusion of different size holes to the panel faces, back boards, panel sizes and panel depth sizes. To allow for the various acoustic panel requirements, a.c. nozzles and access panels, 7 different moulds were needed.
Once all items were manufactured out of Casting plaster, with Hessian scrim and timber lathing laid into the plaster as reinforcement, they were assembled on site as to the ceiling layout plan.
One important innovation was the use of Jesmonite as the casting material for the acoustic panels and the doors to the access hatches, this material being superior in purpose for these items.
Once the new ceiling was in place, the only remaining items of the original ceiling, being the large elliptical beams running from West to East Elevations, were made good and repaired as required. Large sections of these having to be removed during the installation of the new air conditioning units, new moulds, left and right handed were manufactured to replace these sections.
New wiring and trunking has been applied to the top of the mid-level plaster block cornice. In order to block the site line to this wiring from the hall an additional front member has been applied to this cornice.
Whilst in the process of fitting this new moulding, we discovered that the original cornice, through age, had become loose on its original fixings.
In order to repair and refit this cornice, bespoke steel brackets were manufactured and fitted to the wall behind the cornice by the use of chemical fixings and bolts. Once fitted to the wall, the brackets projected across the top of the cornice which was then secured to these brackets by a system of metal ties and plaster/Hessian wads.
Through the preceding years general repairs had been made to the lower level plaster mouldings. Many of these were of a limited or short term standard, in fact in many cases tape had been applied to cover areas of damage, this tape then being painted over to disguise much of the damage.
Lighting and sound equipment had also been fitted in place on and ad hoc basis, these again have all been removed with all damage being repaired in situ.
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Trinity Street, London
Project Details Location:Kensington, London SE1 Project Type: Bespoke Mouldings, External Mouldings, Conservation & Restoration
Heritage Plaster Projects
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Soho House, Dean Street
Project Details Location:Dean Street, London Project Type: Restoration, Bespoke Moulding, lime plastering
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Everyman Theatre, Cheltenham Town Centre
Project Details Location:Cheltenham Project Type: Restoration
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Royal College of Music, London
Project Details
Location:
Kensington, London SW7 2BSProject Type:
Restoration, Bespoke MouldingThe purpose of these works was to allow the full renovation of the main concert hall.
The original plaster casts/mouldings that made up the panelled ceiling had, by the simple passage of time, deteriorated and had become dangerous in their fragility.
The entire ceiling area required to be removed and replaced. The new panels that were to replace the old ceiling in its entirety were designed to replicate the original ceiling in shape and general form, but at the same time to allow the introduction of modern sound, light and heating systems.
These works therefore consisted of the manufacture of moulds, the casting of new panels from these moulds, and the site assembly of these panels, as separate units to make up the complete ceiling.
The design of these moulds also allowed for the incorporation of air conditioning nozzles, access panels for maintenance purposes, access panels for lighting, sound and scenery pulleys, and a complete set out of acoustic panels as devised by Cole Jarman Associates.
As a result of these tests alterations to the panel designs were made, with the inclusion of different size holes to the panel faces, back boards, panel sizes and panel depth sizes. To allow for the various acoustic panel requirements, a.c. nozzles and access panels, 7 different moulds were needed.
Once all items were manufactured out of Casting plaster, with Hessian scrim and timber lathing laid into the plaster as reinforcement, they were assembled on site as to the ceiling layout plan.
One important innovation was the use of Jesmonite as the casting material for the acoustic panels and the doors to the access hatches, this material being superior in purpose for these items.
Once the new ceiling was in place, the only remaining items of the original ceiling, being the large elliptical beams running from West to East Elevations, were made good and repaired as required. Large sections of these having to be removed during the installation of the new air conditioning units, new moulds, left and right handed were manufactured to replace these sections.
New wiring and trunking has been applied to the top of the mid-level plaster block cornice. In order to block the site line to this wiring from the hall an additional front member has been applied to this cornice.
Whilst in the process of fitting this new moulding, we discovered that the original cornice, through age, had become loose on its original fixings.
In order to repair and refit this cornice, bespoke steel brackets were manufactured and fitted to the wall behind the cornice by the use of chemical fixings and bolts. Once fitted to the wall, the brackets projected across the top of the cornice which was then secured to these brackets by a system of metal ties and plaster/Hessian wads.
Through the preceding years general repairs had been made to the lower level plaster mouldings. Many of these were of a limited or short term standard, in fact in many cases tape had been applied to cover areas of damage, this tape then being painted over to disguise much of the damage.
Lighting and sound equipment had also been fitted in place on and ad hoc basis, these again have all been removed with all damage being repaired in situ.
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Trinity Street, London
Project Details Location:Kensington, London SE1 Project Type: Bespoke Mouldings, External Mouldings, Conservation & Restoration
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Trinity Square, London
Project Details Location:London EC1 Project Type: Bespoke Moulding Grade II listed Property