Case Studies from 2021

The Pig Hotel in Cornwall features rustic walling from Welsh Slate.

Roofing slates by Welsh Slate were the material of choice for TV property expert Sarah Beeny’s own home.

Cwt-Y-Bugail roof slates feature on a £5 million new-build private house.

Hospital building gets a new lease of life from Welsh Slate and Stoic Roofing.

The renovation of a 17th Century listed café in the Snowdonia National Park, which incorporated some “rare” roofing methods using Welsh Slate.

New container gardens at the Chelsea Flower Show feature Welsh Slate and Breedon Special Aggregates.

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.

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.

Welsh Slate roofing slates have played a “critical” role in the award-winning renovation of one of London’s most unusual buildings.

Work has drawn to a close on the two-year refurbishment of the roof of a historic arts college that required 26,000 new Welsh slates for 39 separate roof areas.

Work has finally drawn to a close on a year-long project to re-clad with Welsh Slate a unique listed Georgian building that has now been re-purposed for the 21st Century.

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.

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.

Natural slate walling and decorative aggregates from Welsh Slate are bringing a soothing calm to the new headquarters of an international crime agency.

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.

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.

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.

Welsh Slate has completed the fourth in a series of primary school modernisations for South Lanarkshire Council.

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.

Some 24,000 Welsh slates have topped the challenging £7 million renovation of the oldest part of Bolton Town Hall.

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.

Roofing and flooring from Welsh Slate feature on the first major redevelopment of the northern end of York racecourse for a century.

A three-pronged helping hand from Welsh Slate has contributed towards giving a medieval castle a new lease of life.

Natural slate flooring by Welsh Slate was specified for the refurbishment of a gallery at the British Museum for a multitude of reasons.

A historic seaside villa is enjoying a new lease of life as a Landmark Trust holiday let, thanks in part to Welsh Slate, part of the Lagan group.

Some 6,400 natural slates from Welsh Slate have helped restore to its former glory the roof of the first purpose-built gym in England, albeit now as a designer restaurant.

Elements from almost all of the portfolio of Welsh Slate products were specified for a landmark visitors’ centre in Snowdonia for a whole host of reasons, only one of which was the quarry’s close proximity.

The use of natural Welsh slate for cladding is breaking new boundaries in a £20million project nearing completion in North Wales.

The Millennium Centre was designed by Jonathan Adams, of local practice Percy Thomas Architects (taken over by Capita Group in 2004). His first concept drawings were made in early 1998, by 1999 his design was starting to look more like the building it is

Landscape architects behind a £500,000 seafront regeneration project in East Sussex have explained why they turned to Welsh Slate to supply sawn-face boulders forming the scheme’s artistic centrepiece.

Tony Heaney is a man so happy in his job it’s positively galling!