4) roof covering of roof ceramic tiles is more expensive and--as other ceramic components--has greater impact on the environment, which results in a lower grade (1.000), as compared to lightweight covering of pantile sheathing (2.1936);
Inspired by the local 17th century fishermen's cottages, all the properties at Mariners' Haven feature steep slate or pantile roofs and pointed dormer with smaller cross-paned windows.
Some coal was exported to Holland, the ships bringing back red pantile roof slates as ballast, which explains today's 'Continental' feel of the community's houses.
This late-18th/early-19th century brick and pantile five-storey building lies on the east side of Dale Road on the edge of the village, with open fields beyond, and has attractive views over the fields and wooded hill tops to the north.
I am especially interested by the contents of different landscapes - typical Welsh, white long houses in the Brecon Beacons, for example, or rustic pantile houses and cypress trees in France.'
'I like making things happen,' she says, brewing coffee in the tiny pantile floored kitchen of her home near Stratford, where a collection of delicate painted eggs swing gently in the breeze beneath a feather trimmed archway.