The Collection

Reclaimed antique limestone stairs and steps for sale.

Every reclaimed antique limestone staircase and step Ancient Surfaces currently has available to buy. Whole interior flights with nosings worn hollow, solid step blocks cut from a single piece of stone, moulded torus and bullnose profiles, and thick large format treads ready to be set out to a new rise. Each one is a genuine architectural antique, sold once, and crated and shipped worldwide. Prices are on request, and we answer every enquiry personally.

Reclaimed antique limestone stair from Ancient Surfaces with open string treads and moulded front edges floating against a blue grey plaster wall, a curved bottom step and a slim iron handrail beside a large glazed olive jar

Floating Antique Limestone Stair with a Curved Bottom Step

Reclaimed antique limestone stair from Ancient Surfaces climbing a stucco stringer in a double height villa hall under dark timber ceiling beams, with rough ended cream treads, a slim black iron balustrade and a rounded bottom step

Antique Limestone Stair Flight in a Beamed Villa Hall

Reclaimed antique limestone garden steps from Ancient Surfaces descending between whitewashed walls toward a pool terrace, with scrolled wrought iron handrail brackets and recessed step lights

Antique Limestone Garden Steps to a Pool Terrace

Foot of a reclaimed antique limestone stair from Ancient Surfaces in heavily veined silver grey stone, with a broad rounded starting step, a sculptural black iron newel and warm travertine paving alongside

Veined Grey Limestone Stair with a Rounded Starting Step

Looking down a reclaimed antique limestone stair from Ancient Surfaces turning through a quarter landing, warm cream treads under raking lamplight beside an iron balustrade with forged diamond collars and a dark timber handrail

Winding Limestone Stair with an Iron Balustrade

Side view of a reclaimed antique limestone stair from Ancient Surfaces with deep treads left in a coarse split face along their front edges, a turned iron balustrade, a riveted flat iron rail and an arched alcove beneath the flight

Rough Hewn Limestone Stair with Chiselled Tread Edges

Looking down a reclaimed antique limestone stairwell from Ancient Surfaces, pale grey treads dense with fossil pockets and pitting, a minimal square bar iron railing and lights recessed into the stringer wall

Fossil Pitted Limestone Stair with Recessed Step Lights

Reclaimed antique limestone stair flight from Ancient Surfaces climbing beside a rough coursed rubble limestone wall, treads heavily chiselled with visible tool marks and small round lights set into the stonework

Limestone Stair Flight Beside a Rubble Stone Wall

Reclaimed antique limestone stair from Ancient Surfaces against a pale limewashed wall, thick treads whose nosings are rounded soft by centuries of wear, the stone cast green grey, with a curved black iron rail on the open side

Worn Grey Green Limestone Stair with a Curved Iron Rail

Close view of a reclaimed antique limestone stair from Ancient Surfaces turning past a plain stone jamb, full slab treads with square blunt nosings and a green grey bloom, landing on irregular honey toned flagstones

Turning Limestone Stair Onto a Flagstone Floor

Reclaimed antique limestone stair from Ancient Surfaces in an old town courtyard, sandy gold treads dished hollow by use, ornate scrolled wrought iron balustrades on both sides and a green painted door under ochre plaster

Courtyard Limestone Stair with Scrolled Iron Balustrades

Winding stair from Ancient Surfaces with reclaimed antique limestone risers in mottled honey and olive stone beneath broad sawn timber treads, curving past a white plaster wall with an iron balustrade beyond

Winding Stair with Limestone Risers and Timber Treads

Broad shallow flight of reclaimed antique limestone entrance steps from Ancient Surfaces in cool pale cream striated stone, photographed in low sun during installation above freshly laid cobble paving

Wide Limestone Entrance Steps, Photographed on Site

Large format reclaimed antique limestone stair treads from Ancient Surfaces stacked in the warehouse, showing their full thickness, chiselled top faces and tumbled broken edges in cool grey and sand tones

Large Format Limestone Stair Treads, Ready to Ship

Four solid reclaimed antique limestone step blocks from Ancient Surfaces stacked into a short flight on rough scrub in full sun, each with a rounded bullnose front edge, lichen, old mortar and broken ends

Salvaged Limestone Step Blocks with a Bullnose Profile

Four reclaimed antique limestone steps from Ancient Surfaces in the stoneyard, each worked with a fine torus roll and recessed fillet along the front edge, silver grey with lichen and lying among dry leaves

Moulded Limestone Steps with a Torus Front Edge

Reclaimed antique limestone steps from Ancient Surfaces stacked on a timber pallet in the stoneyard, the stone iron stained rust and ochre, front edges worked with a slim moulded drip, rubble and a carved rosette panel behind

Ochre Limestone Steps Palletised in the Yard

Long reclaimed antique limestone step profiles from Ancient Surfaces laid out on pallets in the yard, the stone a soft rose pink flecked with cream and fossil speckle, each length with a moulded front edge and broken ends