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[July 2003]
Daniel Platt Serves Up Natural Clay Roof Tile Solution
Daniel Platt Ltd (Tunstall, Stoke-on-Trent, England), the specialist clay tile manufacturer, has won a prestigious contract for the supply of 30,000 natural clay roofing tiles for use on a brand new restaurant building at the 36-acre Amberley Chalk Pit Museum in the South Downs regions of West Sussex.
With the existing small caf on the museum site no longer able to cope with the appetites of 53,000 visitors each year, the decision was made to construct a brand new timber framed restaurant. Due to open shortly, the restaurant will seat 96 diners.
As Amberley Museum is located within a designated Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty, and within the boundary of the South Downs National Park, Project Architect Rebecca Grange of Rathbone Miller Architects had to satisfy the most stringent of planning requirements.
At the same time as finding an authentic and affordable natural clay roofing solution that met the vernacular style of the area, it was also essential that any product selected also subtly blended in with the weather-worn roofscapes of the other 50 or so properties on the museum site.
After approaching Daniel Platt for various samples, traditionally made tiles from the 'Mercian Echoes' range were chosen. The company's hand-made Bonnet Hips and Valley Tiles were also chosen to complete the effect.
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