Country brown

Dreadnought Country brown smooth faced roof tiles Dreadnought Country brown sandfaced plain clay roof tiles

Natural multi-coloured red and brown clay roof tiles produced without any artificial stains or pigments. A softer lighter colour, which is popular in the south of the country.

Available in Smoothfaced or Sandfaced

Case Studies

High end small development in Cambridgeshire

Country brown sanded plain clay roof tiles

stapleford stapleford eyebrow

This luxury scheme of 4 detached family homes in Stapleford, Cambridgeshire features traditional building materials that relate well to the village context, as well as contemporary windows which maximise the natural light. The use of eyebrow dormers brings light into the roofspace, the gentle curved lines bringing elegance to the roofline.

Audley luxury retirement home Chalfont St Peter

Country Brown Sanded Plain Clay Roof Tiles

Chalfont 2 Chalfont 1

Country Brown Sanded tiles have been used at the new Audley luxury retirement village at Chalfont St Peter on both their self contained cottages and apartments as well as for their club house. The style of the properties and their materials reflect the traditional Arts and Crafts buildings in the surrounding area of the Chilterns. Audley have won a number of conservation awards for their buildings and are renowned for their high quality developments.

Refurbishment of Downside Abbey

Highly Commended at Clay Roofing Awards Best Ecclesiastical Roof

The project was to re-roof the Monastery building and to achieve a close match to the original Broseley tiles. Dreadnought Country Brown Smoothfaced tiles were specified by the architects Beech Tyldesley after gaining approval from English Heritage.

Mr Stuart Forsey, the clerk of works found that the Broseley and Dreadnought tiles were virtually indistinguishable. Full Details

Reroofing of Mckee Irish Army Barracks in Dublin

124,000 Country Brown Plain Clay Roof Tiles

Conservation Roofing Project McKee Army Barracks Dublin 1

The original roof on this prestigious Irish heritage building used a naturally pigmented single camber clay tile that was typical of tiles manufactured in the late nineteenth, early twentieth century in the UK. To have used artificially coloured or stained clay tiles for the re-roof would have been a disservice to the rich architectural heritage of this building, and as such, the architect chose to use naturally fired Dreadnought Country Brown clay tiles and these were supplied by our representative in Ireland, Lagan Building Solutions. Full Details

Hatchford Park

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With fire damage almost destroying the Grade II listed mansion, the challenge was to rebuild and decorate the building to match the original design and reproduce a great deal of the detail that existed with this tudor-style building. Full Details

Technical Info

Dreadnought Tiles conform to BS EN 1304:2013 and should be fixed in accordance with BS 5534 "Slating and Tiling" part 1 & 2 and BS 8000 Part 6.
Frozen-Icon2 web Freeze Thaw Standards require plain clay tiles for use in the U.K. to withstand at least 150 freeze / thaw cycles under method E of European Standard EN 539-2:2013. At Dreadnought Tiles we regard this as too low for our climate and we therefore test our tiles to withstand in excess of 400 cycles.

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	Tiles	Eaves	Gable
Size	265x 165 mm	215x 165 mm	265 x 248 mm
Weight	1.19 kg	0.95 kg	1.8 kg
Pattern	Traditional Single Camber
Material	Etruria Marl	Etruria Marl	Etruria Marl

	Pitched Roofs	Vertical
Minimum Lap	65 mm	32 mm
Maximum Gauge	100 mm	115 mm
Minimum Gauge	88mm	88mm
Approx Weight at Maximum Gauge	71 kg/m²	63 kg/m²
Nails	38 x 2.65 mm alloy	38 x 2.65 mm alloy
Battens	38 x 25 mm	38 x 25 mm
Minimum Pitch	35 degree

Quantity Guide

Tiles @ 100mm Gauge	60m²
115mm Gauge	53m²
Eaves/Tops	6/lineal metre
Gable (Tile and Half)	5/lineal metre of verge
Hips and Valleys	10/lineal metre of main rafter
Ridges	Supplied in 300 mm and 450 mm lengths

Relevant Fixing Standards

BS 5534 2014	Code of Practice for Slating and Tiling
BS 8000-6.2013	Workmanship on Building Sites
BS EN 1991-1-4:2005+A1:2010	UK National Annex to Eurocode 1 -Actions on Structures - Part 1-4: General actions - wind actions

Environmental Info

Place of Manufacture: Brierley Hill, UK
Environmental Management: ISO 14001 Download Certificate
Quality Management: ISO 9001 Download Certificate
Life Cycle: BRE 'A+' rating
Freeze Thaw Testing to in excess of 400 cycles Download Freeze Thaw Test Certificate >>
Energy: Fired in gas kilns to 1130 degrees
Raw materials: Etruria Marl Clay from our local quarry in Brierley Hill, sand
Lifespan: > 60 years. Second hand tiles that have been on roofs in excess of 100 years often sell for more than new tiles on the 2nd hand market
Recyclability: Can be crushed and used as aggregate and/or as an inert bulk fill
Packaging: We keep packaging to a minimum using wooden pallets. We do not shrink wrap or use plastic straps.

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Key Stockists

We work closely with a small number of key stockists.

The following roofing merchants carry stock of our Country Brown Sanded tiles

Buckinghamshire

D J Giles
20-22 Mill Road
Stokenchurch
HP14 3TT https://www.lbsproducts.com/clay-roof-tiles/plain-clay-tiles/dreadnought-tiles 0800 096 7612

Other colours stocked - Red Smooth, Brown Heather, Staffs Blue Smooth, Collingwood Blend

Cheshire

Lagan Building Solutions
NLH
Newcastle Road
Chorlton
Crewe
CW2 5NG

Oxfordshire

Country Roofing Supplies
Timbers Farm
Timbers Lane
Henley on Thames
RG9 5SY https://www.countryroofingsupplies.co.uk/ 01491 641024

Other colours stocked Red Blue Smooth

The following roofing merchants carry stock of our Country Brown Smooth tiles

Dorset

Roofing Gear
Unit O & P
Lion Works
543 Wallisdown Road
Poole
BH12 5AD 01202 143940 Also stock Red Blue Smooth

West Midlands

Willis Westcott
The Millside
Gregory`s Mill Street
Worcestershire
WR3 8BA
West Midlands
B90 1PP 01905 611701

Other colours stocked Red Blue Smooth, Brown Brindle, Brown Heather and Brown Antique

Worcestershire

Wythall Roofing Centre
The Homestead
The Fordrough
Truemans Heath lane
Shirley
Solihull 0121 430 8080

Other colours stocked Red Smooth