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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.
Prices are shown on each product page. For project quantities, specification advice, or a formal quotation, please call 0333 987 4452 or use the contact form.
Yes. Bespoke copy casting is a core service at Tuscan Foundry Products. We can replicate any cast iron gutter, downpipe, hopper head, or fitting from drawings, detailed photographs, or a physical sample or surviving section. Each commission is assessed individually. Lead time is typically 12 to 14 weeks, and quantities as low as a single piece can be considered depending on pattern-making costs.
The Antique Black finish suits Victorian, Edwardian, and inter-war buildings where ventilation ironwork was painted rather than polished — estate houses, terrace housing, civic buildings, and rural properties. It is also correct for listed buildings and conservation area properties requiring like-for-like replacement of original ornamental cast iron vents.
Our cast iron hopper heads are available with 65mm, 75mm and 100mm round outlets, 75mm, 100mm and 125mm square outlets, and 100x75mm, 125x100mm and 150x125mm rectangular outlets, to match the downpipe already on site or specified for the project.
Our cast iron airbricks are available in three standard sizes: 225mm × 75mm (single course), 225mm × 150mm (double course), and 225mm × 225mm (square format). These correspond to the standard airbrick positions used in Victorian and Edwardian brickwork. Each size is available across the School Board, Louvre, and Ornamental pattern ranges.
Please call 0333 987 4452 or use the contact form with the size, quantity and connection details, and we'll provide a quotation.
The H526 measures 440mm wide x 240mm deep x 460mm high, making it well suited to Victorian and Edwardian townhouses.
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.
Our standard spike or sturt length is 300mm (12″). Other sizes are available upon request.
Prices are shown on the product page. For project quantities, multiple pattern orders, or a formal quotation, call 0333 987 4452 or use the contact form.
