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Price range: £79.00 through £99.00 +VAT
The School Board Airbrick is a period-pattern cast iron ventilation grille based on the distinctive square-aperture grid design found widely on Victorian civic, institutional, and estate buildings. Its name derives from the late nineteenth-century school board buildings that made this pattern ubiquitous across urban Britain — plain, regular, and unmistakably of its era.
The grille face comprises a uniform grid of square openings set within a flat, slightly raised outer frame. There is no surface ornamentation beyond the geometry of the grid itself, giving the airbrick a clean, disciplined character appropriate for buildings where restraint was valued as much as function. Available in three sizes — 225mm × 75mm, 225mm × 150mm, and 225mm × 225mm — it covers the standard airbrick coursing widths used in Victorian and Edwardian brickwork. Cast in solid iron with drilled fixing lugs to each face, it seats flush into a standard airbrick cavity with no additional frame required.
The School Board pattern is appropriate for the full range of Victorian and Edwardian building types: school buildings, civic halls, estate cottages, terrace housing, warehouses, and institutional buildings where an unadorned but clearly period ventilation grille is the correct specification. It is also well suited to conservation area properties and listed buildings where the existing ventilation grille fabric is being replaced like-for-like, and to new heritage-style construction where period accuracy is required without decorative elaboration.
UK-cast in solid grey iron and supplied in your choice of finish. Suitable for through-wall ventilation, underfloor void ventilation, and air grille applications where an authentic Victorian pattern is required. For listed building projects or conservation specifications, call us to discuss suitability: 0333 987 4452.
Yes. Cast iron airbricks are frequently specified for listed buildings and conservation area properties precisely because they replicate the material and pattern of the original Victorian and Edwardian ventilation grilles. Local conservation officers and building control typically accept like-for-like cast iron replacements without objection. We can provide product specifications and material datasheets to support applications.
Our cast iron hopper heads are available in a standard primed and black-painted finish, ready for on-site topcoats. Heritage colour finishes and factory-applied linseed oil paint are available on request. Linseed oil paint is a vapour-permeable, period-appropriate finish particularly well suited to listed buildings and conservation area properties.
The Paxton H82 is a large-format hopper with decorative collar mouldings, making it particularly well suited to late Victorian and Edwardian buildings where the rainwater system forms part of the architectural composition. Typical applications include commercial heritage buildings, civic buildings, large detached houses, institutional premises, and warehouse conversions where a more substantial fitting is appropriate.
The H1 is available to accept round pipe connections in 65mm, 75mm, 100mm, and 150mm diameters. The 65mm and 75mm variants measure 305mm wide by 197mm deep and 210mm high. The 100mm variant measures 355mm wide by 230mm deep and 240mm high. A 150mm connection option is also available — please contact the team for dimensions.
We manufacture a wide variety of brackets for many different cast iron gutter and pipe profiles. More common types are the rise and fall, top fix and side fix rafter and the holderbat or pipe clip.
We can also offer traditional drive brackets, repair brackets and fascia brackets in both steel and cast iron.
It is always advisable to replace like with like because quite often the brackets form and important part of the buildings architecture. Occasionally buildings have special decorative brackets and our UK manufacturing allows us to produce small quantities of bespoke brackets when required.
Our cast iron hopper heads are available in a standard primed and black-painted finish, ready for on-site topcoats. Heritage colour finishes and factory-applied linseed oil paint are available on request. Linseed oil paint is a vapour-permeable, period-appropriate finish particularly well suited to listed buildings and conservation area properties.
The Pultney Tapered Hopper Head is available in three pipe connection sizes: 65mm (2.5"), 75mm (3"), and 100mm (4"). Each size connects directly to matching cast iron downpipes via spigot and socket. Compatible downpipe codes are: 65mm — RH025, XRH025; 75mm — RH03, XRH03; 100mm — RH04, XRH04.
The satin chrome telescopic rooflight hand winder is well suited to contemporary and transitional interiors where a brushed chrome finish complements modern or minimal ironmongery. It is compatible with Lumen Rooflights and timber-framed skylights.
Yes. The ornamental foliate pattern was widely used in Victorian construction and is appropriate for Grade II listed buildings and conservation area properties. Its decorative character is often preferable to a plain pattern on prominent or formal elevations. We recommend confirming the pattern with your conservation officer as part of any listed building consent application.
The H460 is well suited to Georgian, Regency, and Victorian buildings where a plain, undecorated rectangular hopper is the appropriate choice — particularly listed properties, conservation area buildings, and institutional or commercial buildings in historic town centres. Its clean, restrained form makes it equally appropriate on modern heritage-style construction where period accuracy is required without ornamental detail.
