WELSH SLATE HELPS GIVE A LONDON LANDMARK A NEW LEASE OF LIFE
Welsh Slate roofing slates have played a “critical” role in the award-winning renovation of one of London’s most unusual buildings. A two-year conservation project to restore the roofs, and 80 decorative dragons, on the 18th Century Great Pagoda...
WELSH SLATE TOPS A GROUNDBREAKING LUXURY APARTMENT BLOCK
A total of more than 1,000m2 of Welsh Slate’s Penrhyn Heather Blues feature on the mansard roofs of four new storeys of luxury penthouse apartments priced between £17 million and £38 million at a former diplomatic building. They...
Welsh Slate Helps With a Steep Learning Curve
Welsh Slate was specified for the roof of an architect’s challenging but award-winning own self-build for a trio of reasons – its quality, durability and aesthetics. More than 600 Penrhyn Heather Blue slates were selected for the front...
Welsh Slate scores a double at a unique church in Everton
One of two unique cast iron churches in Liverpool is enjoying a new lease of life after a second phase of reroofing has been completed with Penrhyn Heather Blue slates from Welsh Slate. The unique patent slate roofing...
Welsh Slate Products help strike the balance between design and crime
Natural slate walling and decorative aggregates from Welsh Slate are bringing a soothing calm to the new headquarters of an international crime agency. Cwt-y-Bugail blue/grey pillared and rustic walling and Cwt-y-Bugail blue/grey pillared and rustic blocks in various...
Irish Embassy
The £2.5 million re-roof of the Grade II listed Irish Embassy in London, with more than 10,000 Penrhyn Heather Blue slates from Welsh Slate, has required its own exceptional levels of diplomacy. DarntonB3 Architecture had multiple challenges to...
WELSH SLATE HELPS ATTLEYS CATCH A CURVE BALL AT COAL DROPS YARD
Formerly a seedy area worth avoiding, London’s Kings Cross has now been transformed into a go-to destination for office workers, students and tourists. Developer Argent’s regeneration of the area has sensitively re-purposed the early Victorian railway buildings into...
PATENT SLATE ROOFING HELPS BRING UNIQUE CHURCH BACK FROM THE BRINK
Work is due to start this month on the second phase of a unique patent slate roofing project which will safeguard a Grade 1-listed pioneering building currently on the Heritage at Risk register. The project is the re-roofing...
WELSH SLATE TOPS THE MENU AT CLIFTON COLLEGE
Two types of Welsh Slate roofing slates have helped breathe new life into the stunning Grade II listed dining hall of a top independent school. A total of 15,000 of Welsh Slate’s rectangular Cwt y Bugail and arrow-head...
WELSH SLATE COMPLETES A QUADRUPLE OF SCHOOLS IN SCOTLAND
Welsh Slate has completed the fourth in a series of primary school modernisations for South Lanarkshire Council. Some 53,000 dark blue grey slates from Welsh Slate’s Cwt-Y-Bugail quarry in North Wales have been used to re-roof West Coats...
Welsh Slate helps welcome in a new era for The Monastery Manchester
The new wing of a 19th Century Grade II* listed monastery has been topped by 9,000 roofing slates from Welsh Slate, part of the Lagan group. The 500mm by 300mm Penrhyn Heather Blue County-grade slates have been used...