Kent peg tiles are usually 9 5 inches 240mm in length.
Peg tile roof.
Peg tiles are characterised by their warm orange red hues and varied texture that they lend to a roof.
Around york peg tiles can be as large as 12 inches x 8 inches 300mm x 200mm.
This requirement varied from area.
Roof tiles are hung from the framework of a roof by fixing them with nails.
The tiles are usually hung in parallel rows with each row overlapping the row below it to exclude rainwater and to cover the nails that hold the row below.
My apprentice cutting up a peg tile valley.
5 1 peg tiles were generally used on steep roof pitches at around 50 degrees.
There are also roof tiles for special positions particularly where the planes of the several pitches meet.
Roofs at this pitch would have required torching with mortar from the under side particularly where the roof space needed to be draughtproof.
Peg tiles were hand made and the drying and firing process led to subtle distortions and.