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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.
A hit and miss vent has a sliding plate on the back of the grille that can be opened, partially restricted, or closed entirely without removing the vent from the wall. This allows airflow to be controlled from inside the building, making it suitable for underfloor void ventilation and through-wall ventilation where adjustable airflow is needed.
Our standard spike or sturt length is 300mm (12″). Other sizes are available upon request.
The H1A is available with round pipe connections in 65mm, 75mm, 100mm, and 150mm diameters. Please specify your required connection size when ordering, as this determines the SKU. If you are unsure of the correct pipe size for your project, our team can advise — call 0333 987 4452.
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The Antique Black finish is cast iron with a blackened surface — the most historically accurate finish for cast iron ironwork and the most appropriate for the majority of heritage applications. Polished Lacquered is cast iron with a bright polished surface sealed with clear lacquer, suited to interiors and sheltered locations where polished ironwork is the specification. Polished Brass is solid polished brass throughout — the correct choice where existing building fittings are in brass or where a warm metal tone is required.
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 Strayton H42A accepts round, square, and rectangular pipe connections. Round: 65mm, 75mm, and 100mm. Square: 75×75mm, 100×100mm, and 125×125mm. Rectangular: 100×75mm, 125×100mm, and 150×100mm. Please specify your required connection size when ordering.
The Brass Rooflight Opener Handle 1520mm is a pole-operated handle designed for manual rooflight opening mechanisms. It is suitable for use with Lumen Rooflights and compatible timber-framed skylights, and is particularly appropriate for period and heritage properties where a brass finish is specified.
The Cast Iron Louvre Airbrick suits Victorian and Edwardian terraced housing, semi-detached properties, public houses, agricultural buildings, and workshop structures where the original airbrick was a louvre-face grille. The horizontal fin profile is widely found in British domestic and light industrial construction from the 1870s through to the 1950s.
Tuscan Foundry supplies screw-jack rooflight openers in polished brass, satin chrome, and polished chrome finishes. Options include telescopic hand-winder openers in 150mm, 250mm, and 300mm sizes, fixed screw-jack stays, and pole-operated handles for high-level rooflights. All are designed for timber-framed rooflights and skylights.
