SARL MASSE

Our work

What we laystays put.

Three generations of masons in the Alpes-de-Haute-Provence. Old houses rebuilt stone by stone, walls that hold — and nothing to redo ten years on.

Village house fully repointed in stone, with new timber lintels above the openings.
Outdoor staircase in cut stone, curved treads and a solid stringer, against a bare stone façade.
House whose terrace rests on three stone arches, with a masonry outdoor staircase.
Rendered pool house under round tiles, exposed timber frame, at the edge of the pool.
Summer kitchen built in stone, with an exposed timber frame and stone flooring.
Long rendered Provençal farmhouse, carried by a stone retaining wall, facing the meadow.
Levelling a slab in the courtyard of a stone house, facing the hilltop village.
Pool and pool house under a timber frame, ringed with stone flagging.
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  • Vaulted stone passage, two arches in line, mason sitting on the wall being built.
  • Laying large stone slabs with a mini-excavator, two SARL MASSE masons on site.
  • Stone building and its long curved retaining wall, ground still being worked.
  • Stone chimney stack capped with stone slabs, above a canal tile roof.
  • A helicopter sets down a bulk bag of materials on a mountain site, where no road goes up.

What we do

From the first stone to the last tile.

We rebuild old houses in stone, and we build new ones in stone from the footings up. Between the two, everything a site calls for — and the things no catalogue sells.

  • Full restoration in stone
  • New build in stone
  • Houses
  • Structural masonry
  • Timber frames
  • Roofs and coverings
  • Stone walls
  • Retaining walls
  • Rock armour
  • Renders and façades
  • Flush-struck joints
  • Stone paving
  • Thresholds
  • Stone stairs
  • Vaults and arches
  • Earthworks
  • Slabs
  • Summer kitchens
  • Stone ovens and barbecues
  • One-off commissions

A piece drawn for one place and one place only is not something you order: it is something you talk through on site.

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Stonework, piece by piece.

Retaining walls, arches, paving, roofs. These are not whole projects — they are the moves those projects are made of.

Stone house in a hamlet at Braux: dry-stone retaining walls and steps built in front of the house, ground still being worked.
Interior room with bare stone walls, old timber lintels above the windows, new ceiling and exposed beam.
Compass rose traced by hand into the fresh concrete of the terrace.
The porch being finished: a new timber frame set on stone piers, tiled covering.
Double garage with dressed stone arches and a canal tile roof.
Outdoor steps and stone retaining wall in front of a village house, levelled platform in the foreground.
Stone building and its long curved retaining wall, ground still being worked.
Mason carrying a stone slab to lay it, between two dry-stone walls.
Canal tile roof and its chimney stacks, facing the mountains.
Village stone façade, arched doors and shutters, masonry outside stair.
Vaulted stone passage, two arches in line, mason sitting on the wall being built.
Curved dry-stone retaining wall carrying the terrace of the house, facing the wooded valley.
Stone bastide restored by SARL MASSE, terrace being finished, hilltop village and mountains behind.
Restored stone façade on a village square in the Alpes-de-Haute-Provence, bell tower behind, SARL MASSE truck in front of the site.
Monogram cast into the terrace slab, in front of the stone façade and its arches.
Solid timber frame set on block walls, compact loader in the foreground, cliff and pine woods behind.
Olivier and Franck Masse in front of a freshly rendered sand-coloured façade, in red work clothes.
Dry-stone wall with a round-arched niche, lavender along the top.
Stone paving being laid, joints still open.
Stone hut, tiled roof with stone slab verges, facing the mountain.
Cantilevered stair treads against a stone wall, with floor-level lighting.
Stone chimney stack capped with stone slabs, above a canal tile roof.
Round opening cut in a dry-stone gable, framed by stones set in a sunburst.
Two masons screeding a terrace slab, viaduct and valley behind them.
Long stone building and its porch on stone piers, tiled roof redone, gravelled yard facing the mountains.
Stone house built by SARL MASSE, lit from within at dusk, wooded mountain behind.
Old stone building restored by SARL MASSE, topped with a new timber frame, autumn foliage around it.
Stone retaining walls stepped over several levels, with planted terraces.
Stone arch built on its timber centring, in a wall still going up.
Terracotta terrace edged by a stone wall, with a timber handrail.
Long low stone building, old tile roof and timber lean-to.
Room under an exposed timber frame, stone walls and stone flooring.
Laying large stone slabs with a mini-excavator, two SARL MASSE masons on site.

Your kind of project is not on this list?

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