Handmade 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.
Handmade Roof Tiles
Restoring period properties with handmade roof tiles
A naturally aged roof covered in handmade roof tiles can be visually stunning, with no two tiles looking the same. Remember that the roof has a character of its own because it is clad with handmade roof tiles which are a natural product.
However, the roofs found on older historic properties deteriorate over time and may need repairing or replacing entirely, so it is important to choose high quality, historically authentic handmade roof tiles that will match the architecture of the building and help restore the roof to all of its original beauty.
One should also keep in mind that planning regulations will often insist on the use of like-for-like or, at the very least, very similar handmade roof tiles.
The handmade peg tile
During the 12th and 13th centuries, handmade clay peg tiles were a popular feature of historic country houses, farm buildings and churches across much of England.
These handmade roof tiles were named after the wooden pegs by which they were originally attached to the timber laths or battens, their distinctive appearance was characterised by their variation in texture and colour. In those days, every town and village would have had its own kiln and tile maker and, depending on the local clay, the firing temperature and the skill of the manufacturer, the colours could range from pale orange to a dark red. This is because different parts of the country produced different types of clay
By the middle of the nineteenth century peg tiles had developed into the plain handmade roof tiles that had projections on the underside of the top edge for hooking onto the timber battens. They were also slightly longer and wider.
Handmade roof tiles: keeping that authentic period look
When restoring a period or listed property, it is very important to look for handmade roof tiles with a gorgeous time weathered look that is consistent with the original handmade roof tiles that were fitted.
Genuine handmade roof tiles have an appearance, which is well suited to period properties, and cannot be replicated by cheaper, more uniform machine made tiles.
Also, used reclaimed handmade roof tiles are frequently in short supply and can be pretty expensive to source, so new handmade roof tiles can offer a compatible and cost effective alternative, particularly if you have to replace large areas of an existing roof.
Look for a company that specialises in the manufacture of quality handmade roof tiles. Ensure it's a company that combines age-old, traditional skills and craftsmanship with modern firing techniques. This produces gorgeous handmade roof tiles that have an individual and instant-aged, rustic look, that meet modern performance standards.
When restoring any roof, it is important to realise that even the slightest change from the original size of handmade roof tile can adversely affect the overall appearance of the project. Before you start, ensure that if you require a bespoke size of handmade roof tile, you can actually have them built to that size by a reputable tile manufacturer. By having your handmade roof tiles made to the correct size, you will be able to replicate and preserve the character of the original building.
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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Further Information
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