I have worked in the building trade for many years. My trade is ‘pargeter’. We are a rare trade on the Radcliffe Red List. A pargeter creates architectural designs by free hand modelling with lime plaster onto overmantels friezes panels ceilings walls
Your personally designed parget is modelled with a creative eye, fingers and a spatula.
It could be a simple combed pattern or a highly ornamental design in high relief.
Here are some of my Pargets
A 21C design brings life to a dark London courtyard patio 
One metre panels of plantlife on a low hallway ceiling which needed to have presence 
Conservation of a high gable parget c1560 using a twig as pargeting tool 
Gatehouse walls pargeted similar style 
Overmantel in a new Tudor style gatehouse 
Gatehouse walls pargeted similar style 
Frieze and baker to visually join an old bakery and the main house 
Sheep in Coggeshall, home of the wool trade 
Parget incised into the wet plaster and is unframed 
Frieze with various end motifs 
The fireplace had seen better days so I spun an arch and modelled a frieze 
Five metre by four metre design inspired by the Bayeux tapestry 
Spun cassetted arch with high relief pargeting. Wheee! 
Adam and Eve Parget 
A one meter diameter motif to balance up a wall which was ‘missing’ a window 
Adam and Eve parget in high relief fill recessed overmantel 
Parget hiding an ugly concrete beam 
Detail of overmantel with pigmented mortar 
Mayoral Crest on a gable end 
Fox next to the front door of a newly built extension 
Combed parget opposite Fitzwilliam museum Cambridge 
Conservation of parget on a grade 1 listed building. The parget panels were very hard and had cracked when the timber frame moved 
Frieze around a new build house in Cambridgeshire. I completed about two metres of this frieze each day
When Prince Charles and Duchess Camilla came to Suffolk, I was asked to demonstrate pargeting to them – and then they decided to have a go themselves. Following on from this meeting, I pargeted a panel for them in Birkhall, their Scottish home.
