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Roofing
News Release from: Marley Eternit | Subject: Ashdowne natural clay
Edited by the Buildingtalk Editorial
Team on 03 February 2005
Eternit tiles help to ruffle a few
feathers
Handcrafted roof tiles from Eternit Building Materials have helped transform a former coach yard into a character development on the edge of a Conservation Area.
Architect Ken Philpott specified Eternit's single cambered Ashdowne natural clay plain tiles in Melford colour for Ruffles Yard in the picturesque and quintessentially English village of Castle Hedingham in Essex The plain tiles, along with granny bonnets and half-round ridges, were fixed by AB Roofing on a total of four new four-bedroomed homes that sold for between £315,000 and £400,000 - three mews-style properties resembling five almshouses and a separate, larger detached house
This article was originally published on Buildingtalk on 22 Jul 2003 at 8.00am (UK)
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Developers Bermac Properties Plc demolished the former Ruffles coach yard, with views of the Norman church spire, which was a base for a coach hire and taxi business and was used for the parking, refuelling and repair of the vehicles.
The property developers had used Eternit tiles before, for 17 apartments and three commercial units at Webster Court in Rayleigh, Essex, and the design for Ruffles Yard was well received by the planners.
Character features included front doors painted in different primary colours, ground-floor bay windows and first-floor domed, half-dormer windows, "dove cotes" above the double garages, farm gates around an enclosed, gravelled courtyard, and half an acre of scrubland that was turned into paddocks.
Bermac's managing director Andrew Temperton MRICS said: "The Eternit tiles have played an important part as they are a vital aspect of the external appearance". Request a free brochure from Marley Eternit ...
" We were pleased with the effect and the houses were well received in the market.".
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