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Search againAbout Breedon Trading Ltd
Welsh Slate, Part of the Breedon Group, is the world’s leading supplier of high-quality slate for a peerless range of exterior and interior design applications. Uniquely 500 million years old, the material is widely recognised as the finest natural slate in the world. The inherent beauty and qualities of slate have resulted in its specification and use by architects, developers, landscapers and interior designers. From its source in North Wales, Welsh slate has been used and crafted by many generations of people from all walks of life since early Roman times. Penrhyn Quarry has been at the centre and the focal point for UK natural stone and its heritage since the thirteenth-century and a major operation for over 400 years. Hard Landscaping Product portfolio: Hard Landscaping - paving slabs, patio packs, walling, coping stones, monoliths, fencing, rockery & feature stones, decorative aggregates steps & thresholds.
Areas covered
National (Eng/Wales/Scot/NI), East Anglia, International, Midlands, North Thames, North West, Northern Ireland, Scotland, South Thames, South West, Wales, Yorkshire North East
Types of work undertaken
- Hard Landscaping Materials (unlimited)
- Domestic (unlimited)
- Commercial (unlimited)
- Surfacing Materials (unlimited)
- Fencing Materials (unlimited)
- Natural Stone (unlimited)
- Top Soil And Aggregates (unlimited)
Projects
RHS Hampton Court Flower Festival 2023
Welsh Slate supplied celebrated garden designer Paul Hervey-Brookes with materials for his latest garden at the RHS Hampton Court Palace Flower Show.
Welsh Slate hard landscaping products included; boulders, 250mm x 500mm Penrhyn Riven paving, glacial boulders, sliced glacial boulders, slate feature stones, rockery stone, and 40mm and 20mm Penrhyn Blue chippings.
The Cancer Research UK Legacy garden celebrates the hope and optimism brought about by gifts in wills, and encourages reflection, conversation, and connection in a tranquil woodland.
From comics to copings
Welsh Slate Architectural and Hard Landscaping products on award-winning British comic book artist and illustrator Charlie Adlard NEW home feature a building material that is seriously OLD!
The house, designed by AHR Architecture, uses Welsh Slate on various aspects – as vertical cladding and hard landscaping, as walling and copings to terraces and landscaped gardens
Charlie said: “The use of the Welsh Slate products have made a striking natural addition to the modern look of the building. It’s the first time we have used Welsh Slate and we love it!”
Welsh Slate at RHS Chelsea with garden designer Paul Hervey-Brookes
Hard landscaping products from Welsh Slate complement the return to the 2022 Chelsea Flower Show.
Welsh Slate paving, feature on two container gardens conceived by budding landscape designers Nicki Hollier with the Mandala, meditation and mindfulness garden and Bea Tann with the Enchanted rain garden both mentored by award-winning landscape designer Paul Hervey-Brookes who is himself using a plethora of products for the Brewin Dolphin garden.
Paul is using a range of Welsh Slate’s Penrhyn Heather hard landscaping products, including fencing, glacial boulders, slate edging, paving slabs.
New container gardens at the Chelsea Flower Show feature Welsh Slate Paving
Natural landscaping products by Welsh Slate helped Covid-conceived container gardens debut at this year’s RHS Chelsea Flower Show.
Cwt-Y-Bugail Dark Blue Grey Riven paving featured on the “Pop Street Garden” designed by John McPherson in conjunction with established landscape designer Paul Hervey-Brookes as a space to jump-start the transition from ‘lockdown to on-the-town’.
Paul Hervey-Brookes, who is also a RHS judge, said: “I was very happy to mentor these extremely promising young landscape designers and to see Welsh Slate used so well in the gardens in this new category.”
The Pig Hotel in Cornwall features Welsh Slate Rustic Walling
Cwt Y Bugail Rustic walling features as the external masonry skin over 1,000m2 of a new luxury bedroom extension.
Supplied by Contec SW, it was specified to match the original stone of the main 15th Century house
Contec’s MD Rob Furse said: “We specified Welsh Slate walling for its strength and availability. We prefer to use British wherever possible and most of our clients do too.”
“Slate’s sustainability was a major selling point to the client who is so satisfied with it they are using it on another upcoming project.”
Welsh Slate helps give a London landmark a new lease of life
Roofing slates from Welsh Slate were specified for the new-look Royal Pagoda.
Welsh Slate roofing slates have played a "critical" role in the award-winning renovation of one of London’s most unusual buildings. A two-year conservation project to restore the roofs, and 80 decorative dragons, on the 18th Century Great Pagoda in the World Heritage Site of the Royal Botanic Gardens at Kew will give the public access to the upper floors for the first time in decades.
Welsh Slate Walling features on the HQ of an international crime agency
Architectural products feature on the new HQ of an international crime agency.
Natural slate walling and decorative aggregates from Welsh Slate are bringing a soothing calm to the new headquarters of an international crime agency.
The manufacturer’s Cwt-y-Bugail blue/grey pillared and rustic walling and Cwt-y-Bugail blue/grey pillared and rustic blocks in various sizes, have been used for and around a 232m2 feature waterfall at the new €105 million offices of Eurojust, which combats serious cross-border crime and organised crime within the EU.
