Jun 23 2005
Natural clay plain tiles from Eternit Building Materials have been used on the roofs and walls of a mixture of townhouses and apartments by the design-led developer Swan Hill Homes.
Park View on Pondtail Close, Horsham, West Sussex, is a prestige blend of some 60 two-bedroomed apartments starting at £185,000, and three and four-bedroomed townhouses from £335,000. Swan Hill prides itself on building higher-value homes whose distinctive character is developed from the carefully chosen locations.
The properties at Park View are spacious and flexible in design to appeal to a wide range of purchasers, from first-time buyers to families. Eternit’s double-cambered Acme plain tiles were specified by OSP Architecture for the roofs and walls of the two and three-storey homes - Century colour on the former and Dark Brindle colour for the latter.
Beacon Roofing fixed them on the roofs to a variety of ridge heights, hips, dormers and porches using plain tiles and half-round ridge tiles. On the walls, they were fixed at mostly the first and second storeys but also around windows, under and around the porches, and above and around the dormers, using plain tiles and vertical external 90° corner tiles.