Smoothfaced

Perhaps, the best known and most widely used natural colour produced from Etruria Marl.  Ideal for matching and repairs, the traditional red Smoothfaced single camber tile is widely stocked by roofing merchants throughout areas where clay tiles are established.

Sandfaced

Roding Valley High School, Loughton, Essex.

This red sandfaced roof complements the bluff and red brickwork.  The large expanse of roof is broken up by the use of 5 bands of ornamental tiles, in alternating courses of club and fishtail tiles.  The roof is topped with two hole ornamental ridges.

Red Smoothfaced tiles on a Private house in Monmouth

Durability of colour

Both these properties were roofed in the 1960's, with red roof tiles.  The house on the left was tiled with dreadnought red clay smoothfaced tiles.  The picture taken 40 years later shows that whilst the clay roof has remained a rich red colour, the concrete roof has faded to a grey colour and lost all its pigmentation.