Handmade Clay Tiles in Suffolk
Handmade Clay Tiles
Should you choose handmade roof tiles or slate?
Many people struggle with such a dilemma; in fact, some people may not even know the difference between the two. This may sound strange, but think about it, if you are not a builder or an architect, you may have never considered the difference between slate and handmade roof tiles.
After all, slate tiles and handmade roof tiles do the same job. They are both a roofing material, they are both sourced naturally and they both keep the elements where they should be, outside! However, there are some major differences between the two.
The most obvious difference is that natural roofing slate is a natural product. It may have been cut to size or shape, but it is unaltered apart from that. Handmade roof tiles on the other hand are manufactured. Although handmade roof tiles are also made from a natural product, namely clay, they are still not as they were when extracted from the ground. The handmade roof tiles has to be mixed, shaped, pressed and fired to achieve its final look and purpose.
Handmade roof tiles are more versatile than slate
Handmade roof tiles, although manufactured, are more versatile than slate tiles. This because they can be made into a vast array of shapes, they may have various textures and can be given many different colours.
This versatility can make a handmade roof tile far more appealing to those who have a specific shade or design effect in mind, something they wouldn't be able to achieve with a slate roofing tile.
The natural clay that handmade roof tiles are crafted from are very hard-wearing, and selecting a roof tile means choosing a robust, durable material with a lifespan in excess of fifty years, with many handmade roof tiles lasting a century or more.
Our handmade roof tiles allow you to be creative
Owing to the vast range of sizes and shapes of our handmade roof tiles, you are bound to find the roof tile that inspires you. A mass produced roof tile will not have quite as much character as a handmade roof tile, so you'll be buying into something that is quite unique too.
What about the cost of handmade roof tiles?
Another point to consider is that handmade roof tiles tend to be cheaper per square metre than natural slate, so handmade roof tiles are more suitable for projects on a tight budget that require a long lasting, practical roof tile. Our top quality handmade roof tiles are very versatile, and are manufactured in many sizes, shapes and colours. The handmade roof tiles also boast a wider range of accessories than slate roof tiles, enabling tiles to be used on hips, valleys and on external corners. So, if the project is more complicated, handmade roof tiles will give you more scope to be creative than slate roof tiles.
Quality and tradition in our handmade roof tiles
Treat your property to the quality of a traditional handmade roof tile. You'll never regret spending that extra on your project budget, simply because there is nothing quite like the aesthetic beauty of a high quality, traditionally crafted handmade roof tile.
A little information about Suffolk
Suffolk in popular culture
Picturesque Suffolk has inspired artists, songwriters, poets and playwrights from antiquity to the modern day.
Novels set in Suffolk include parts of David Copperfield by Charles Dickens, The Fourth Protocol, by Frederick Forsyth, Unnatural Causes by P.D. James, Dodie Smith's The Hundred and One Dalmatians, The Rings of Saturn by W. G. Sebald, and among Arthur Ransome's children's books, We Didn't Mean to Go to Sea, Coot Club and Secret Water take place in part in the Suffolk countryside. Roald Dahl's short story "The Mildenhall Treasure" is set in Mildenhall Suffolk.
The television series about a British antiques dealer, called Lovejoy, was filmed in various locations in Suffolk. The reality TV series Space Cadets was filmed in Rendlesham Forest in Suffolk, although the producers fooled participants into believing that they were in Russia. Several towns and villages in Suffolk have been used for location filming of other television programmes and cinema films. These include the BBC Four TV series Detectorists, an episode of Kavanagh QC, and the films Iris and Drowning by Numbers. During the period 2017-2018, a total of £3.8million was spent by film crews in Suffolk.
Little green men in Suffolk
The Rendlesham Forest Incident is one of the most famous UFO events in England and is sometimes referred to as "Britain's Roswell".
The song "Castle on the Hill" by Ed Sheeran was referred to by him as "a love letter to Suffolk", with lyrical reference to his hometown of Framlingham and Framlingham Castle.
George Orwell's Knype Hill is the fictional name for the Suffolk town of Southwold in A Clergyman's Daughter, while the character of Dorothy Hare is modelled on Brenda Salkeld, the gym mistress at St Felix School in the early 1930s.
Richard Curtis and Danny Boyle's 2019 romantic comedy Yesterday was filmed throughout Suffolk, using Halesworth, Dunwich, Shingle Street and Latitude Festival as locations.
The 2021 film The Dig, based on the excavation of Sutton Hoo in the 1930s and starring Ralph Fiennes and Carey Mulligan was mostly shot on location in Suffolk.
The 2022 series "The Witchfinder" is a BBC Two sitcom based on the journey of Matthew Hopkins, the Witchfinder general, and a suspected witch through East Anglia and many other Suffolk towns including Stowmarket and Framlingham during the Witch trials of the English Civil War.
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