Handmade Bricks

Experience the timeless craft of our handmade bricks. Using traditional techniques and Scotch kilns, each brick is expertly shaped and dried to ensure unique quality and character.

Discover Our Range of Handmade Bricks

Light Multi

Light Multi is the lightest of our standard ranges and is a blend of oranges and reds from the cooler parts of the kiln.

Bucks Multi

The Bucks Multi, or Chesham Multi as it is also known, is a blend of the full range of colours within the kiln, from orange to brown.

Dark Multi

Blending dark reds, purples and browns, our Dark Multi bricks are ideal for high-end new builds and restoring late Victorian to pre-Second World War buildings, reflecting the richness of traditional coal-fired kilns.

Grey Brown

Grey Browns are a selected brick from the very middle of the kiln where temperatures are highest, at around 1200°C.

About

Heritage of Handmade Bricks

In our long history our handmade bricks have been used on many of the most important and prestigious buildings in the country.


While investing in some of the latest technology in order to remain efficient we have maintained the essence of what makes our product unique, keeping the hand making skills alive as well as firing in traditional updraft Scotch kilns.


Using traditional tools and techniques the process has changed very little over the last 100 years. Our handmakers can make around 1000 bricks per day.

Drying

Each brick contains a pint of water when it is made, which has to be removed through drying before the bricks can be fired. During drying the brick will shrink by around ten percent, therefore the process must be carefully controlled to avoid cracking.


The heat source for our dryers now comes from wood chip burned in biomass boilers. Once dried the bricks are hand set into the kiln, leaving a finger width gap between each brick to allow optimum firing.

Firing and Blending

Our oil fired kilns are fired for around 24 hours and take a further three days to cool. Our wood-fired kilns are fired for five days, stoked day and night.


It takes two people a week to empty the kiln and the bricks are then hand blended to our standard ranges or to bespoke mixes depending on customer requirements.

How can we help?

We’re here to help! Whether you’re looking for advice on our bricks, materials, or anything else, we’re always happy to share our expertise. Alternatively, why not arrange a visit to meet our friendly team in person?