Our work

One contract. Since day one.

Axora started in September 2025. Everything we have built since is on one site: South Ormsby Estate in Lincolnshire, for Simpson (York) Ltd, who have kept us there for the whole of it.

Drone view of the range with the new concrete slab cast alongside

Ongoing

Louth, Lincolnshire · Simpson (York) Ltd

South Ormsby Estate

RC slab construction for a historic stable courtyard conversion, combined with adoptable drainage and associated earthworks.

RC SlabDrainageEarthworks

The job, in full

Every stage, photographed.

Dig, formation, reinforcement, pour, drainage, ducting and finished surfacing. These are our own photographs of the works, not stock.

Drone view looking straight down on courtyard groundworks within the heritage buildings

Total station set up for setting out in front of the Georgian hall

Timber edge formwork set out around a prepared slab base in the parkland

Wide view down the stable courtyard, mesh reinforcement laid over DPM ready for pour, with the scaffolded hall behind

Courtyard excavation with ducting laid and a mini excavator working

Crew and excavator working on the finished courtyard slab

Finished concrete slab in the courtyard with an operative working on

Freshly cast reinforced concrete slab sitting in a shallow reduced-level dig

Foundation formwork in progress, with the slab area dug out and blinded

Pad foundation substructure alongside a heritage brick outbuilding

Concrete pad foundations with capped starter bars beside a brick barn

Yellow gas ducts bedded in sand in an open trench

Blue water ducts and black ducts running into the building under blue and yellow marker tape

Service ducts entering the building through the wall

Open trench alongside a brick boundary wall, holding water before pipe laying

Tracked midi excavator cutting and pushing spoil alongside the hall

Reduced-level regrade around the base of the Georgian red brick hall

Graded earthworks cut formed in parkland

Drone view over South Ormsby Estate showing new hardstanding and access

Drone plan view of the walled garden with graded plots set out

Completed circular stone hardstanding in mature parkland

Completed groundworks outside the Georgian hall and its stone portico

Foundation-stage groundworks alongside an existing red brick range

Service routes marked out in blue on the excavated formation

Laser level set over a trench for setting out to level

Surveyed, not estimated

The site, scanned in 3D.

We survey the works and build a measured 3D model from it. It settles quantities, records what was actually there, and makes a variation argument a matter of looking rather than remembering.

The stable courtyard, with the slab down and the ranges either side.

The wider earthworks, showing the cut and the formation set out.

Ask us for a reference on this job and we will go to Simpson (York) Ltd for it. We are also happy to talk through scope, programme and whether Axora is the right fit.

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