Since it was established, Womersley’s has been providing a wide range of building materials for the refurbishment of historic buildings. However, we soon realised that home improvements in even the most modern houses could benefit from materials that allow walls to breathe and are not a hazard to health.

The natural materials we supply for building, plastering, rendering, insulating and decorating your home allow the exchange of water vapour and control the relative humidity of our rooms and benefit our health. The products we sell are for historic building refurbishments and eco-friendly new builds – so they have to meet strict environmental criteria during their production.

We check that all of our products do not have negative effects on health, and where possible we source products that have a positive impact on our well being. This is extremely important to those people that have asthma, MS and allergies. We hope that you will find this web site useful in your search for building and decorating materials. You are welcome to buy online quickly and securely, and we will be only too happy to provide advice by e-mail, over the phone and in person – if you are able to call at our shop or warehouse.

At Womersely’s we also run a range of courses designed for architects, builders, developers, structural engineers, surveyors, historic homeowners and DIY enthusiasts. These courses are for those people who want to learn more about traditional historic building practices and use our eco-friendly building materials. You can learn how to use traditional lime mortars, how to plaster a wall with clay, to build a home with straw or how to imaginatively decorate your house with natural paints and decorative techniques.