This is hot mixed mortar made from quicklime and a blend of specially chosen sands and chalk flour.

Lime putty with sand from the Kennet Valley

Hot mixed mortar and limestone chippings

Stone in the Yorkshire Dales finished with Natural hydraulic lime

Below: close up before and after shots of a hot mixed lime repointed upper section of a property in Bampton.

Light levels really do play on lime mortar.

Hybrid mortar mix of Devonshire and Oxfordshire sands.

Coarse grain lime mortar mix on Uffington chalk stone.

A rich, slightly burnished, example square metre.

French natural hydraulic lime and a blend of sharp sand and slightly pozzolanic building sand.