Stone studio & fabrication · Millpond Marble & Granite, Duckbridge · Est. 2015
Choose stone the way the mill chose water — slowly, and on purpose.
The Peskett sisters keep a slab showroom beside the millpond and a fabrication shop behind it: eleven bundles open under the skylights seven days a week, laser templating at a quarter millimetre, and the same four hands from the rack to your kitchen. Coffee on, no appointment, and the prices written on the racks themselves.
Services & rates
The rate card
Rack prices, published — the number on the bundle is the number on the invoice, template and set inside it. The remnant rack restocks most weeks; Friday is the day the regulars dig.
Quartz — fabricated & installed$70–88 / sq ft
3 cm engineered, non-porous, never sealed; template included
Granite — fabricated & installed$63–84 / sq ft
3 cm, polished or leathered, 15-year impregnating sealer on
Marble & soapstone — fabricated & installed$85–112 / sq ft
2 or 3 cm, veins matched at seams; soapstone oiled to charcoal
Edge profiles from the benchfrom $24 / linear ft
Ogee $42, bullnose $28, mitered apron $155 — per linear foot
Fabrication-only — you have a fitter$33 / sq ft
Template file and cutout drawings handed to your installer
Remnant half-slabs, while they last−40%
The rack behind the showroom, forty percent off the card
I stood under the skylights for an hour and chose a granite I had walked in not knowing existed. The leathered face hides everything my two boys can spill, and the full-height upstands replaced a silicone bead with actual stone. My neighbour has since chosen the same bundle’s brother.
The remnant rack gave me a carrara vanity at forty percent off, cut the same week, sealed the same day. They treated the smallest job I will ever have like the biggest one I have been quoted twice as much for elsewhere.
A bakery counter that takes flour, butter and a health inspector with opinions. Quartz, coved upstands, no seam where the law looks — two inspections in and the glove has found nowhere to stop. The Pesketts send a care sheet and actually check you read it.
Fair questions
Asked under the skylights
The five the showroom hears every week. Bring yours in person — the answers are better with the stone in front of you, and the coffee is free.
Do I need an appointment?
No. The skylights are on seven days a week and the racks are labelled with material and price. Bring room measurements if you have them; if you do not, bring photographs and we will do the arithmetic together at the bench.
Why is there a range on the square-foot price?
Cutout count, edge choice and seam placement move it — a farm kitchen with a sink, a hob and a drizzle of windows costs more per foot than a straight run. The laser measure settles the real number, and the quote that follows it is the number you pay.
Can I buy a slab and have you just cut it?
Gladly — fabrication-only is $33 a square foot plus the edge card, and we will tell you honestly whether the slab you found elsewhere is worth carrying through our door. Some bargains are not, and you should hear that before you pay for the truck.
What does the sealer actually buy me?
Fifteen to twenty minutes against wine, coffee and beetroot on natural stone — time to wipe, not immunity. Quartz needs nothing but a cloth and a trivet. What no sealer survives is an open bottle of olive oil left down overnight; the chemistry does not care whose name is on the invoice.
How fast, and how long is the kitchen down?
Template within the week of the reserve, install about three Fridays later. The kitchen itself is out for one morning — we template on the existing tops, and the swap happens in a single visit.
The Duckbridge studio
Beside the millpond, behind it the saw
Ada Peskett chose the building for the north light and Rue bought the saw a month later; the showroom and the shop have shared a wall ever since. Eleven bundles open under the skylights, a remnant rack that pays for the roof, and a rule the sisters lifted from the mill: nothing is rushed at the choosing stage and everything is exact at the cutting stage. The saw is behind glass, and visitors are welcome to watch their own kitchen move through it.
The rack price is the quote price
The number written on the bundle is the number on your invoice, fabricated and installed — the template is inside it, not added after. If a Millpond invoice ever exceeds the rack rate on your material, do not pay the excess; bring it to the counter and we will settle it ourselves.
Duckbridge & the Mill Leat, 2025 — 2026
Off the bench this year
Six jobs photographed at handover. Under the skylights is where you meet the stone; this is where the stone ended up.
How it goes
From skylight to kitchen
The same sequence on every job — the only variable is your project.
Day 1
The showroom floor
You, the skylights, and eleven open bundles with the prices written on the racks. Reserve what you like; the coffee is free and nobody hovers.
Days 2–3
The laser template
Two hours in your kitchen on the existing tops. You approve seam placement and edge details on screen before a blade is chosen.
Weeks 1–2
The bench
The file drives the CNC behind the glass, mitered pairs clamp overnight, and the edges come to the hand bench. Visit whenever the doors are open.
Install day
The set
Old tops out, stone levelled and seamed by the same hands that cut it. The kitchen is a kitchen again by mid-afternoon.
The week after
The care visit
A sealer check on natural stone, a wipe-down lesson, and the written care sheet — the boring hour that adds ten years.
The mill waited a hundred years for the right water. Your kitchen can wait a fortnight to be measured properly.
The showroom is open seven days, skylights from nine · (555) 011-8349 · floor@millpondstone.example
Come stand under the skylights
Or write first, if that is your way of doing things: the room, the run, and when you would like to be cooking on stone. The showroom answer is usually “this week”. floor@millpondstone.example