{
    "name": "Tudor Roof Tiles",
    "legalName": "Tudor Roof Tile Co. Limited",
    "url": "https://www.tudorrooftiles.co.uk/",
    "telephone": "01797 320202",
    "email": "info@tudorrooftiles.co.uk",
    "address": {
        "street": "Dengemarsh Road",
        "locality": "Lydd",
        "region": "Kent",
        "postcode": "TN29 9JH",
        "country": "GB"
    },
    "facts": [
        "Founded in 1986 in Ashford, Kent, and at its freehold factory in Lydd on Romney Marsh since 1992",
        "Makes handmade clay plain tiles (265 × 165 mm), Kent peg tiles (250 × 150 mm), ridges, hips, valleys, angles, ornamental tiles, oast tapers, creasing tiles, bat access sets and roof vents",
        "Tiles are dried for at least six days and fired at about 1080°C for 33 hours",
        "Made to BS EN 1304 with UKCA and CE marking, and tested by Lucideon, a UKAS-accredited laboratory",
        "30-year durability guarantee when the tiles are registered",
        "Bespoke sizes and shapes are usually made within 4–6 weeks of order",
        "Telephone 01797 320202, email info@tudorrooftiles.co.uk, Dengemarsh Road, Lydd, Kent TN29 9JH"
    ],
    "products": [
        {
            "name": "Handmade plain tiles",
            "url": "https://www.tudorrooftiles.co.uk/handmade-plain-tiles/",
            "summary": "Tudor’s handmade plain tiles measure 265 × 165 mm (10½ × 6½ in), with two nibs that hook over the batten and a deep double camber. You need about 60 handmade plain tiles per square metre at the standard 100 mm gauge.",
            "specification": {
                "Size (nominal)": "265 × 165 mm (10½ × 6½ in)",
                "Fixing": "Two nibs and two nail holes",
                "Gauge (maximum batten spacing)": "100 mm (4 in)",
                "Lap (minimum overlap)": "65 mm (2½ in)",
                "Minimum roof pitch": "40°, as recommended by BS 5534:2014",
                "Tiles per m²": "60 at 100 mm gauge (50 per square yard)",
                "Laid weight": "About 75 kg per m² (137 lb per square yard)",
                "Weight per 1,000 tiles": "About 1.25 tonnes",
                "Transverse strength": "780 newtons (BS EN 1304:2013, clause 4.4.2)",
                "Frost and water": "Meets BS EN 1304:2013 for freeze–thaw resistance and water impermeability",
                "Packing": "Banded in tens and shrink-wrapped on non-returnable pallets of 1,000, one colour per pallet"
            },
            "items": [
                {
                    "name": "Plain tile"
                },
                {
                    "name": "Eave and top tiles",
                    "catalogueNumber": "16"
                },
                {
                    "name": "Ornamental tiles"
                },
                {
                    "name": "Angles and gable tiles"
                }
            ]
        },
        {
            "name": "Kent peg tiles",
            "url": "https://www.tudorrooftiles.co.uk/kent-peg-tiles/",
            "summary": "Tudor’s Kent peg tiles are handmade clay tiles measuring 250 × 150 mm (10 × 6 in), the size Kent peg tiles settled on in the late 19th century. They are flatter than our plain tiles, with a slight camber to match the peg tiles on many listed and conservation-area roofs.",
            "specification": {
                "Size (nominal)": "250 × 150 mm (10 × 6 in)",
                "Fixing": "Two peg holes, square or round, or nibs to order",
                "Gauge (maximum batten spacing)": "95 mm (3¾ in)",
                "Lap (minimum overlap)": "65 mm (2½ in)",
                "Minimum roof pitch": "40°, as recommended by BS 5534:2014",
                "Tiles per m²": "66 at 95 mm gauge (58 per square yard)",
                "Laid weight": "About 76 kg per m² (146 lb per square yard)",
                "Weight per 1,000 tiles": "About 1.15 tonnes",
                "Standard": "BS EN 1304, UKCA and CE marked"
            },
            "items": [
                {
                    "name": "Peg tile",
                    "catalogueNumber": "14"
                },
                {
                    "name": "Peg eave",
                    "catalogueNumber": "15"
                },
                {
                    "name": "Oast tapers",
                    "catalogueNumber": "17 and 19"
                }
            ]
        },
        {
            "name": "Ridge tiles",
            "url": "https://www.tudorrooftiles.co.uk/ridge-tiles/",
            "summary": "Tudor makes five handmade clay ridge tiles (hog’s back, half round, third round, baby and mono) and vented versions of the hog’s back and half round. Each clay ridge tile is about 310 mm (12 in) long and made from the same clay and sand as our roof tiles.",
            "specification": {
                "Length (nominal)": "About 310 mm (12 in)",
                "Shapes": "Hog’s back, half round, third round, baby, mono",
                "Vented ridges": "Hog’s back and half round, 2,580 mm² free area each",
                "Colours": "All standard Tudor colours",
                "Standard": "BS EN 1304, UKCA and CE marked"
            },
            "items": [
                {
                    "name": "Hog’s back ridge",
                    "catalogueNumber": "1"
                },
                {
                    "name": "Half round ridge",
                    "catalogueNumber": "2"
                },
                {
                    "name": "Third round ridge",
                    "catalogueNumber": "3"
                },
                {
                    "name": "Baby ridge",
                    "catalogueNumber": "4"
                },
                {
                    "name": "Mono ridge",
                    "catalogueNumber": "5"
                },
                {
                    "name": "Hog’s back vented ridge",
                    "catalogueNumber": "6"
                },
                {
                    "name": "Half round vented ridge",
                    "catalogueNumber": "7"
                }
            ]
        },
        {
            "name": "Hip and valley tiles",
            "url": "https://www.tudorrooftiles.co.uk/hip-and-valley-tiles/",
            "summary": "Tudor handmakes four clay hip tiles (bonnet, Kent, Sussex and eyebrow) and a universal valley tile. Hip tiles cover the outside corner where two roof slopes meet; valley tiles line the inside corner, so the roof stays tiled all the way round with no lead on show.",
            "specification": {
                "Hip tiles": "Sussex, bonnet, Kent and eyebrow hips",
                "Valley tiles": "Universal valley",
                "Colours": "All standard Tudor colours",
                "Bespoke": "Hips and valleys made to drawings on request",
                "Standard": "BS EN 1304, UKCA and CE marked"
            },
            "items": []
        },
        {
            "name": "Ornamental tiles",
            "url": "https://www.tudorrooftiles.co.uk/ornamental-roof-tiles/",
            "summary": "Ornamental roof tiles are plain tiles with a shaped bottom edge, laid in bands to decorate a roof or a tile-hung wall. Tudor handmakes seven shapes, each 265 × 165 mm so they course in with our plain tiles: club, D.S. club, bullnose, fishtail, arrowhead, diamond and snubnose.",
            "specification": {
                "Size (nominal)": "265 × 165 mm (10½ × 6½ in)",
                "Shapes": "Club, D.S. club, bullnose, fishtail, arrowhead, diamond, snubnose",
                "Fixing": "As plain tiles: nibs and two nail holes",
                "Colours": "All standard Tudor colours",
                "Standard": "BS EN 1304, UKCA and CE marked"
            },
            "items": [
                {
                    "name": "Club",
                    "catalogueNumber": "20"
                },
                {
                    "name": "D.S. club",
                    "catalogueNumber": "21"
                },
                {
                    "name": "Bullnose",
                    "catalogueNumber": "22"
                },
                {
                    "name": "Fishtail",
                    "catalogueNumber": "23"
                },
                {
                    "name": "Arrowhead",
                    "catalogueNumber": "24"
                },
                {
                    "name": "Diamond",
                    "catalogueNumber": "25"
                },
                {
                    "name": "Snubnose",
                    "catalogueNumber": "26"
                }
            ]
        },
        {
            "name": "Plain tile fittings",
            "url": "https://www.tudorrooftiles.co.uk/plain-tile-fittings/",
            "summary": "Plain tile fittings are the specially shaped tiles that finish a roof or tile-hung wall at its edges and corners. Tudor handmakes eave and top tiles, gable tiles, and 90° external and internal angles, in the same clay, sands and colours as our plain tiles.",
            "specification": {
                "Eave and top tiles": "Shortened plain tiles for the first and last courses",
                "External and internal angles": "265 mm long, 90° as standard",
                "Gable tiles": "For verges at gable ends",
                "Colours": "All standard Tudor colours",
                "Standard": "BS EN 1304, UKCA and CE marked"
            },
            "items": [
                {
                    "name": "Eave and top tiles",
                    "catalogueNumber": "16"
                },
                {
                    "name": "Gable tile",
                    "catalogueNumber": "12"
                },
                {
                    "name": "External angle",
                    "catalogueNumber": "13"
                },
                {
                    "name": "Internal angle",
                    "catalogueNumber": "18"
                }
            ]
        },
        {
            "name": "Oast house tiles",
            "url": "https://www.tudorrooftiles.co.uk/oast-house-tiles/",
            "summary": "Round oast house roofs need tapered tiles, because each course gets shorter as the cone narrows. Tudor makes two handmade oast house roof tiles, the wide and narrow oast tapers: both are 250 mm long and taper from 150 mm wide to 120 mm or 85 mm.",
            "specification": {
                "Wide taper": "250 × 150 mm, reducing to 120 mm (10 × 6 in, reducing to 4.7 in)",
                "Narrow taper": "250 × 150 mm, reducing to 85 mm (10 × 6 in, reducing to 3.4 in)",
                "Fixing": "Peg holes, as Kent peg tiles",
                "Colours": "All standard Tudor colours",
                "Standard": "BS EN 1304, UKCA and CE marked"
            },
            "items": [
                {
                    "name": "Oast taper, wide",
                    "catalogueNumber": "19"
                },
                {
                    "name": "Oast taper, narrow",
                    "catalogueNumber": "17"
                },
                {
                    "name": "Peg tile",
                    "catalogueNumber": "14"
                }
            ]
        },
        {
            "name": "Roof ventilation",
            "url": "https://www.tudorrooftiles.co.uk/roof-ventilation/",
            "summary": "Tudor offers three kinds of roof tile ventilation that don’t spoil a handmade roof: the patented Under-Tile vent, which can’t be seen (about 9,000 mm² of free air), the low-profile In-Tile vent (at least 6,000 mm²) and vented ridge tiles (2,580 mm² each).",
            "specification": [],
            "items": []
        },
        {
            "name": "Bat access tiles",
            "url": "https://www.tudorrooftiles.co.uk/bat-access-tiles/",
            "summary": "Tudor’s bat access tiles let bats back into a roof without leaving a gap you would notice. The top tunnel tile forms an 18 mm high, roughly 165 mm long tunnel to an entrance hole in the tiles beneath, so bats can crawl into the roost.",
            "specification": {
                "Tunnel": "About 18 mm high and 165 mm long",
                "Ridge access": "18 mm access cut into the side of a ridge tile",
                "Works with": "Plain tile roofs of any brand",
                "Colours": "Every standard Tudor colour, or Natural Clay with no sand face",
                "Bespoke": "Access tiles made to your requirements"
            },
            "items": []
        },
        {
            "name": "Creasing tiles",
            "url": "https://www.tudorrooftiles.co.uk/creasing-tiles/",
            "summary": "Clay creasing tiles are thin, flat tiles laid like a very thin brick to throw rainwater off walls, sills and chimneys. Tudor makes them by hand to the same standard as our roof tiles, with low water absorption and high strength, in any size and thickness.",
            "specification": {
                "Size and thickness": "Made to order",
                "Water absorption": "Low",
                "Strength": "High",
                "Uses": "Wall cappings and copings, drip sills, chimneys, decorative bands",
                "Colours": "All standard Tudor colours"
            },
            "items": []
        }
    ],
    "colours": [
        {
            "name": "Medium Antique",
            "family": "Traditional range",
            "tone": "Earth brown",
            "surface": "Sand-faced, with Kent sand",
            "url": "https://www.tudorrooftiles.co.uk/roof-tile-colours/medium-antique/",
            "techSheet": "https://www.tudorrooftiles.co.uk/portal/ma_spec.pdf"
        },
        {
            "name": "Dark Antique",
            "family": "Traditional range",
            "tone": "Warm black",
            "surface": "Sand-faced, with Kent sand",
            "url": "https://www.tudorrooftiles.co.uk/roof-tile-colours/dark-antique/",
            "techSheet": "https://www.tudorrooftiles.co.uk/portal/da_spec.pdf"
        },
        {
            "name": "Red Antique",
            "family": "Traditional range",
            "tone": "Mid red",
            "surface": "Sand-faced, with Kent sand",
            "url": "https://www.tudorrooftiles.co.uk/roof-tile-colours/red-antique/",
            "techSheet": "https://www.tudorrooftiles.co.uk/portal/ra_spec.pdf"
        },
        {
            "name": "Jubilee",
            "family": "Traditional range",
            "tone": "Weathered brown and black",
            "surface": "Sand-faced, with Kent sand",
            "url": "https://www.tudorrooftiles.co.uk/roof-tile-colours/jubilee/",
            "techSheet": "https://www.tudorrooftiles.co.uk/portal/jub_spec.pdf"
        },
        {
            "name": "Weathered Earth",
            "family": "Traditional range",
            "tone": "Dark chocolate",
            "surface": "Sand-faced, with Kent sand",
            "url": "https://www.tudorrooftiles.co.uk/roof-tile-colours/weathered-earth/",
            "techSheet": "https://www.tudorrooftiles.co.uk/portal/we_spec.pdf"
        },
        {
            "name": "Sussex Red",
            "family": "Sussex colours",
            "tone": "Orange",
            "surface": "Sand-faced, with fine Kent sand",
            "url": "https://www.tudorrooftiles.co.uk/roof-tile-colours/sussex-red/",
            "techSheet": "https://www.tudorrooftiles.co.uk/portal/sr_spec.pdf"
        },
        {
            "name": "Sussex Brown",
            "family": "Sussex colours",
            "tone": "Lighter brown",
            "surface": "Sand-faced, with fine Kent sand",
            "url": "https://www.tudorrooftiles.co.uk/roof-tile-colours/sussex-brown/",
            "techSheet": "https://www.tudorrooftiles.co.uk/portal/sb_spec.pdf"
        },
        {
            "name": "Rustic Red",
            "family": "Romney urban colours",
            "tone": "Red orange",
            "surface": "Sand-faced, with Kent sand",
            "url": "https://www.tudorrooftiles.co.uk/roof-tile-colours/rustic-red/",
            "techSheet": "https://www.tudorrooftiles.co.uk/portal/rr_spec.pdf"
        },
        {
            "name": "Russet Brown",
            "family": "Romney urban colours",
            "tone": "Mellow brown",
            "surface": "Sand-faced, with Kent sand",
            "url": "https://www.tudorrooftiles.co.uk/roof-tile-colours/russet-brown/",
            "techSheet": "https://www.tudorrooftiles.co.uk/portal/rb_spec.pdf"
        },
        {
            "name": "Natural Clay",
            "family": "Natural range",
            "tone": "Brown orange",
            "surface": "Natural clay, no sand face",
            "url": "https://www.tudorrooftiles.co.uk/roof-tile-colours/natural-clay/",
            "techSheet": "https://www.tudorrooftiles.co.uk/portal/nat_spec.pdf"
        },
        {
            "name": "English Oak",
            "family": "English Oak range (2025)",
            "tone": "Warm brown, for seamless repairs",
            "surface": "Handmade, hand-pressed and kiln-fired",
            "url": "https://www.tudorrooftiles.co.uk/roof-tile-colours/english-oak/",
            "techSheet": null
        },
        {
            "name": "English Dark Oak",
            "family": "English Oak range (2025)",
            "tone": "Deep brown, like 18th-century pegs",
            "surface": "Handmade, hand-pressed and kiln-fired",
            "url": "https://www.tudorrooftiles.co.uk/roof-tile-colours/english-dark-oak/",
            "techSheet": null
        },
        {
            "name": "English Oak Blend",
            "family": "English Oak range (2025)",
            "tone": "A mix of warm, earthy tones",
            "surface": "Handmade, hand-pressed and kiln-fired",
            "url": "https://www.tudorrooftiles.co.uk/roof-tile-colours/english-oak-blend/",
            "techSheet": null
        }
    ],
    "specifications": [
        [
            "Plain tiles",
            "265 × 165 mm",
            "10½ × 6½ in"
        ],
        [
            "Peg tiles",
            "250 × 150 mm",
            "10 × 6 in"
        ],
        [
            "Ornamentals",
            "265 × 165 mm",
            "10½ × 6½ in"
        ],
        [
            "Oast peg tapers, wide and narrow",
            "250 × 150 mm, reducing to 120 or 85 mm",
            "10 × 6 in, reducing to 4.7 or 3.4 in"
        ],
        [
            "Ridges (all types)",
            "310 mm long",
            "12.2 in"
        ],
        [
            "Lap (minimum)",
            "65 mm",
            "2.55 in"
        ],
        [
            "Gauge, plain tiles (maximum)",
            "100 mm",
            "4 in"
        ],
        [
            "Gauge, peg tiles (maximum)",
            "95 mm",
            "3.7 in"
        ],
        [
            "Minimum roof pitch",
            "40° (BS 5534:2014 recommendation)",
            "40°"
        ],
        [
            "Coverage, plain tiles",
            "60 tiles per m²",
            "50 tiles per yd²"
        ],
        [
            "Coverage, peg tiles",
            "66 tiles per m²",
            "58 tiles per yd²"
        ],
        [
            "Laid weight, plain tiles",
            "75 kg per m²",
            "137 lb per yd²"
        ],
        [
            "Laid weight, peg tiles",
            "76 kg per m²",
            "146 lb per yd²"
        ],
        [
            "Weight per 1,000 plain tiles",
            "About 1.25 tonnes",
            ""
        ],
        [
            "Weight per 1,000 peg tiles",
            "About 1.15 tonnes",
            ""
        ],
        [
            "Transverse strength",
            "BS EN 1304:2013 clause 4.4.2 (780 N)",
            ""
        ],
        [
            "Water impermeability",
            "BS EN 1304:2013 clause 4.4.1",
            ""
        ],
        [
            "Freeze–thaw (frost resistance)",
            "BS EN 1304:2013 clause 4.4.3 (BS EN 539-2)",
            ""
        ],
        [
            "In-Tile vent free area (minimum)",
            "6,000 mm²",
            "9.3 in²"
        ],
        [
            "Under-Tile vent free area (minimum)",
            "9,000 mm²",
            "14 in²"
        ],
        [
            "Packaging",
            "Banded in tens, shrink-wrapped on non-returnable pallets (1,000 plain tiles, one colour)",
            ""
        ],
        [
            "Creasing and bespoke tiles",
            "Size and thickness made to order",
            ""
        ]
    ],
    "updated": "2026-10-06"
}