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...
MAC MAKES GOOD FOR ALBERT
Some 24,000 Welsh slates have topped the challenging £7 million renovation of the oldest part of Bolton Town Hall. The county-grade 500mm x 300mm Penrhyn Heather Blues from Welsh Slate, part of the Lagan Group, were specified by...
WELSH SLATE IS MUSIC TO A CITY’S EARS
A former musical warehouse which had to be rebuilt brick by brick to make way for a city link road has been topped with Welsh Slate. Rose House, on the corner of Lincoln High Street and Tentercroft Street,...
WELSH SLATE HELPS BRING INTEGRITY TO A BRITISH MUSEUM DEVELOPMENT
Natural slate flooring by Welsh Slate was specified for the refurbishment of a gallery at the British Museum for a multitude of reasons. Some 172m2 of various sizes of Cwt Y Bugail dark blue grey floor slates from...
A contemporary take on the traditional Scottish vernacular has been topped with roofing by Welsh Slate, part of the Lagan Group.
Some 1,000m2 or 19,000 Penrhyn Heather Blue Celtic-grade 500mm by 300mm natural slates were specified by South Lanarkshire Council for the new £3 million Abington Primary School, the authority’s fifth project using Welsh Slate. Welsh Slate had been...
WELSH SLATE IS PHELAN’S FAVOURITE AT YORK RACECOURSE
Roofing and flooring from Welsh Slate feature on the first major redevelopment of the northern end of York racecourse for a century. They were specified by master planners Phelan Architects as a natural material to complement the listed...