Stiles & Sons Landscape Construction is a family-owned landscape, hardscape and masonry contractor run by Fred Stiles, working the New Hampshire Seacoast and Massachusetts' North Shore, Seabrook, Hampton, Exeter and Portsmouth down through Newburyport, Amesbury, Ipswich and Georgetown, with excavation, drainage and outdoor-living construction alongside the patio and wall work. The company says it has been built over 20 years and is being passed to the next generation.
On Google the company holds 4.9 stars from 36 ratings, with 18 written reviews from 2022 to 2026 that describe the same experience: Fred answers quickly, writes a detailed and fair estimate, and the crew delivers what was promised. This year a homeowner hired them for land and vegetation clearing, a new driveway and restoration work after Fred's estimate stood out among several bids; another had a hot tub patio built to a plan a year in the making; a third, after calling six other contractors about rainwater erosion on a hillside, found Fred the only one with a practical and affordable fix; and a buyer of a neglected property watched the crew clear 12 years of vines, trees and debris. In 2025 the team built walkways, a patio and a fire pit for one customer and a brick patio, granite cobblestone borders and a stacked-stone retaining wall in Newburyport for another. Earlier accounts from 2022 to 2024 add a pool deck and retaining wall with before-and-after photos, a paver walkway and granite front step, three projects over seven years at one condo, and a brick driveway from a decade earlier that Fred noticed a flaw in while quoting a neighbor and sent a crew back to redo unasked. The single complaint, from 2022, is a no-show for a quote appointment with no reply to a text.
One public record is worth knowing: Violation Tracker lists a $9,390 penalty against Stiles & Sons Landscape Construction Inc. from the Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration, a motor vehicle safety violation dated June 6, 2024.
For a patio, fire pit, retaining wall, driveway or drainage fix on the Seacoast or North Shore, the people who hired them are consistent and specific. Get the estimate in writing, which reviewers say Fred does well, and confirm the schedule before work starts.
