Conservation Roof Tiles in Suffolk
Heritage Tiles: Emblematic of the finest craftsmanship
Heritage tiles are the professional roofer's choice for the highest quality clay roof tiles. We pride ourselves in manufacturing, stocking, and delivering the very finest in prestige clay roof tiles.
Heritage Tiles have several tile ranges that satisfy every architectural requirement. Vintage and historic properties right up to modern new builds are covered by the diverse range of clay roof tiles that we stock.
So, whether you are in the building trade, or simply wish to choose your own tiles, Heritage Tiles have the right product for your specific requirements.
What Heritage Tiles have to offer our customers?
- We offer specification and technical solutions to help you achieve the perfect build.
- We also offer expert design advice to all our customers.
- We are happy to engage in site visits with our clients.
- We have stockists and distributors throughout the United Kingdom to ensure that we can provide our expert service to a wider area.
- We can provide estimated quantities from plans supplied by our clients.
- We offer battening plans.
- We can deliver a standard and bespoke colour choice for our clay tile products.
- All our tiles are assessed and approved by Lucideon.
- We provide a nationwide delivery and collection service.
The ranges of clay roof tiles we supply.
The Clayhall Range of roof tiles:
Clayhall Medium Blend - Carefully crafted to replicate all the features of handmade the Clayhall hand crafted range of tiles offers an excellent alternative when budget restrictions are a concern, but without compromising quality or durability.
Clayhall Dark Blend - Quality and durability in a budget clay roof tile. The Clayhall dark blend is sure to turn heads.
Clayhall Red Blend - A beautiful rustic clay roof tile. The Clayhall red blend is a firm favourite with our customers.
Clayhall Hamlet Mix - The Clayhall Hamlet mix is a gorgeous light and sandy looking clay roof tile that is a perennial favourite in the building trade.
Clayhall Birchwood Mix - The Clayhall Birchwood mix offers a gorgeous blend of lighter and darker shades in this diverse clay roof tile. If you are concerned that your roof tiles could look monotonous, the Clayhall Birchwood mix is the clay roof tile to choose.
The Conservation Range of roof tiles
The Conservation range of roof tiles are available in a range of distinctive colours, created by using a very fine sand, The Conservation Weathered; A natural warm tone, achieving an instant mellow and settled look and The Conservation Red; perfect for vertical tiling especially suited for villages and hamlets with olde world vernacular charm.
Manufactured using high quality clay, achieving high strength and durability properties, giving homeowners and contractors peace of mind for many years to come. The conservation range comes with a complete set of associated fittings, including Hog Back Ridge, Half Round Ridge, Bonnet Hips, Valley tiles and External Angles.
The Conservation range of clay roof tiles comes in the following variations:
- Conservation Red
- Conservation Weathered
- Conservation Dark
Conservation Peg Tile
Plain clay roofing tiles laid to a double lap have been used for roof covering in England since before the Norman Conquest and tiles dating back to Roman Times have been discovered under excavation. From the outset clay plain tiles were made incorporating fixing features.
The Classic Edwardian roof tile
The Classic range of plain tiles is one of the finest ranges of clay tiles.
We source only the best raw materials for our craftsman to create beautifully handmade clay tiles of the highest quality and durability.
Tile Fittings available from Heritage Tiles
There are many fittings that are available from us a Heritage Tiles to complete your build to perfection. We stock and supply the following:
- Gable Tile
- Eave Tile
- Baby Porch Ridge
- 90 Degree Ext. Angle
- Universal Bonnet Hip
- Half Round Ridge
- Hogs Back Ridge
- Mono Ridge
- Third Round Ridge
- Universal Valley
- Ornamental Club
- Bat Tile Set
Bat Tiles:
Provide help for our bats with our range of bat friendly roof tiles.
Did you know that all UK bats and their roosts are protected by law? The Wildlife and Countryside Act introduced in 1981, gave legal protection to all bat species and their roosts in England.
Distinct species of bats prefer differing places to roost. The two most usually found species of bat in the UK are the Pipistrelle and Brown Long-Eared Bat. Pipistrelle prefer confined spaces such as under tiles on roofs and hanging spaces. The Brown Long-Eared Bat prefer roof timbers and ridges inside lofts. Heritage Clay Tiles can provide purpose made access points within your roof tiles or ridge tiles. The Bat Tile Set can form part of a mitigation package required by law for existing roosts or as potential access where a roost had not previously been present.
Select a Blend
Getting the right blend for your roofing project can feel daunting, but with our blend generator you can mix and match various blends of tiles to achieve the perfect blend.
Click here to make use of our online tool to choose your own unique blend.
Because our strict quality control provides a consistent tile size you can mix assorted styles and colours of tiles to make your roof unique to you. Please use the tool below to experiment with various blends.
Adjust the sliders to set the ingredients for your desired blend then click on the update mix button.
Alternatively click on any blend or tile to display it.
Whatever type of clay roof tile you want, Heritage Tiles will be able to help.
Conservation Roof Tiles
Conservation roof tiles: Handmade for rustic quality
So, you have a roofing project planned, but what roof tiles do you choose to go with?
Do you opt for a quality machine made roof tile or a handmade roof tile?
Heritage conservation roof tiles are all handmade roof tiles with quality and excellence at their core. They may cost more than the mass produced roof tiles, but the conservation roof tiles we sell will offer you a far superior finish to any roofing project.
The manufacture of conservation roof tiles
After the raw clay has been excavated from the ground, the clay used to make the conservation roof tiles has to be weathered for around nine months to a year. For our conservation roof tiles, we select clay that has a very fine sand content to achieve the perfect finish.
After the weathering process, the clay is ground into very fine particles with water added to make it more workable. At this stage previously fired clay pieces that have been ground down are added to help reduce shrinking, cracking and warping during the firing process. This also naturally adds texture to the finished conservation roof tiles.
An age old process for conservation roof tiles
Many years ago, handmade tiles would have been hand thrown into the mould before being finished. However, today they are more often mechanically pressed either by hand or by using a hydraulic press to ensure a more consistent density and to keep the production of conservation roof tiles fast enough to satisfy demand for these quality roof tiles.
The conservation roof tiles are then handled and dried in several ways to create the different character variations of shape and colour. The shape is created either by hand or machine and the colour can be varied by adding various oxides. As an example, manganese oxide fires the finished conservation roof tiles to a far darker colour.
Temperature variations within the firing kiln will also lead to variations in colour, with a higher temperature kiln resulting in a darker conservation roof tile.
The best way to select conservation roof tiles for a project
We always recommend that conservation roof tiles, or any tiles for that matter are mixed from at least three crates to allow for variations within, and between, batches. Laying a roof using tiles picked from sequential crates, without mixing them up, often results in rather obvious stripes or sections of the same colour on the finished roof. This situation is avoided by staggering the conservation roof tiles to be laid. The fact that you can end up with unsightly blocks or sections of the same tone on the roof by not staggering the conservation roof tiles, demonstrates that our conservation roof tiles are handmade and are all individual pieces. They may look the same in the crate, but they all have a slightly different appearance, making a correctly laid roof a truly unique feature.
Our conservation roof tiles are built to last
The density of any roof tile is an important factor, as the denser the tile, the less water it will absorb after fitting. This means the conservation roof tiles are less susceptible to frost damage. Remember that a low quality tile could lead to expensive repairs or, at worst, a complete re-roof. Our conservation roof tiles are manufactured to stand the test of time.
Why chose conservation roof tiles?
A handmade clay roof tile can cost up to fifty percent more than its machine-made counterpart but will in return offer more of a unique shape, a more pleasing texture and more subtle colour variations. The benefits of our handmade conservation roof tiles are all in the aesthetic appeal they provide and for the more period properties or those with particular character, there really is no alternative to a handmade conservation roof tile.
Why not have a look at the rest of our conservation roof tiles? We know you will find the right roofing tile for your roofing project.
A little information about Suffolk
Suffolk Pink for Suffolk buildings
Villages and towns throughout the county of Suffolk are renowned for historic pink-washed halls and cottages, which has become known far and wide as "Suffolk Pink". Decorative paint colours found in Suffolk can range from a pale shell shade, to a deep blush brick colour.
According to considerable research, the use of Suffolk Pink dates back to the 14th century, where these shades were developed by local dyers by adding natural substances to a traditional limewash mix. Additives used in this process include pig or ox blood with buttermilk, elderberries and sloe juice.
Suffolk Pink: Get it right or repaint it!
Well informed local people and historians often state that a true Suffolk Pink should be a "deep dusky terracotta shade", rather than the more popular pastel hue seen today on many Suffolk buildings. This has caused controversy in the past when home and business-owners alike have been reprimanded for using colours deemed incorrect, with some being forced to repaint their property with an acceptable shade of paint. In 2013, famous chef Marco Pierre White had his 15th century hotel, The Angel, in Lavenham, decorated a shade of pink that was not traditional Suffolk Pink. He was required by local authorities to repaint it at his own expense.
Suffolk Pink: More than just a colour
To demonstrate how Suffolk takes its colours so seriously, a home-owner in Lavenham had to paint their Grade 1 listed cottage Suffolk Pink, to make it match a neighbouring property. The local council said it wanted all of the cottages on that particular part of the road to be the same colour, because they were originally a single building three hundred years earlier.
County landmarks that are painted Suffolk Pink include the cottages in front of St Mary's Church in the village of Cavendish.
The historic Suffolk Pink colour has also inspired the name of a British apple.
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