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Burlington Slate Ltd

Tel +44 (0)1229 889661, www.burlingtonstone.co.uk
Cavendish House, Kirkby-in-Furness, Cumbria, LA17 7UN

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Stone cladding and lining
Burlington Slate Ltd
Cavendish House
Kirkby-in-Furness
Cumbria
LA17 7UN
Tel:  +44 (0)1229 889661
Fax:  +44 (0)1229 889466
Email:  
sales@burlingtonstone.co.uk
Website: 
www.burlingtonstone.co.uk
www.burlingtonslate.co.uk
Contact: Steve Brockbank
Tel: +44 (0)1229 889665
rps no: 1382 
Burlington Slate offers a range of English stone for external cladding and internal lining. The stone is suitable for both 
external and internal uses as it will withstand extremes in climatic conditions.
Introduction  Burlington Slate Ltd is 
a family owned company that 
extracts and works stone from 
several quarries in the English Lake 
District. As each quarry provides a 
different stone with its own 
characteristic appearance the 
company can offer the specifier a 
wide choice of stones and colours. 
Extraction is by use of diamond 
wires with cutting by laser guided 
machinery in the company's modern 
workshops. Further shaping and 
finishing is by local craftsmen to 
meet customer and project 
requirements. 
Authority  Burlington Slate operates 
a BS EN ISO 9001 quality 
assurance system.
Green issues  The use of diamond 
wire extraction avoids the use of 
blasting, creating less damage and 
intrusion on the environment.  
Full details of the company's 
conservation policy can be viewed 
on its website.
DESCRIPTION
Cladding and lining panels are 
offered in the following Burlington 
stone - Baycliff Caulfeild (interior 
linings only), Baycliff Lord (interior 
linings only), Kirkby Blue Grey

Brandy CragBroughton Moor
Bursting Stone and Elterwater.
Surface treatments include:
waterjet: where the stone is worked 
with high-pressure water jets to give 
a non-slip matt finish,
honed: a smooth finish with a slight 
sheen produced by using a polishing 
head,
sanded: where sawn slabs are 
coarsely polished to give a 
semi-smooth regular finish,
riven/cleft: a traditional treatment 
where the stone is riven along its 
line of cleavage to reveal its natural 
grain,
gritblasted: a finish similar to cleft,
but available on slabs of greater 
size,
flamed: where the top surface of the 
slab is burned off giving an
irregular textured finish,
textured: where top surfaces are
pneumatically tooled to produce a 
pitted or grooved surface.
Panels may be installed with open 
joints (as in rainscreen cladding), 
soft joints (using flexible sealants) or 
with hard joints (using mortars). 
They may be installed using 
loadbearing, restraining or 
combination loadbearing/restraining 
fixings.
Burlington Slate Ltd
Further information on the range of
cillstones, stone surrounds, window 
boards is available from the 
company. 
Brochure: Cladding by Burlington is 
also available on request.
 
Recent projects are:
Lloyds TSB Building, London,
J.P. Morgan HQ, Edinburgh,
Pacific Place Three, Hong Kong,
Foundry Square, San Francisco.
Dimensions  (mm)
Thicknesses: 20, 30, 40
Panel sizes are to customer 
specification with standard sizes 
from 600 x 300 to 1200 x 600.
Weight  Stone weight is calculated 
at 2,770 kg/m
3
. 
Appearance  With the exception of  
Kirkby Blue Grey
, which has an 
even tone throughout, each stone is
highlighted by contrasting veins in 
the following colours:
Baycliff Caulfeild Limestone - buff, 
with coffee mottling,
Baycliff Lord Limestone - oatmeal, 
with dark cream markings,
Kirkby - blue-grey,
Brandy Crag - silver-grey,
Broughton Moor - mid-green,
Bursting Stone - olive-green,
Elterwater - pale-green.
Stones may be combined in a single 
scheme to give complementary and 
contrasting appearance.
PERFORMANCE
Weather  Stone is impervious to 
frost, wetting and drying cycles and 
extremes of temperature.
Mechanics  Detailed information on 
abrasion resistance, compressive 
and flexural strength, moduli of 
rupture and elasticity and breaking 
load is available from the company.
Fire  Stone is non-combustible.
Liquids  Stone is impervious to 
water.
Biological  Stone is resistant to and 
will not support the growth of 
mosses, lichens, algae or fungi.
Pollution  Stone resists salt attack 
and atmospheric pollution even in 
extreme conditions e.g. marine and 
industrial environments.
Compatibility  Stone is compatible 
with all other building materials and 
can be used with any type of fixing 
applications.
MAINTENANCE
Panel 
compression 
and movement 
joints should be 
regularly 
checked; 
sealants and 
pointing should 
be renewed 
at the end of their design life.
Cleaning  Surfaces should be 
cleaned with water and mild 
detergent, finishing with a chamois 
leather.
SUPPLY
All products are supplied normally 
crated and palleted direct from the 
company on its own vehicles.
SERVICES
The company offers the following 
services to specifiers:
in-depth project consultation, 
technical advice,
help and advice on meeting national 
Building Regulations,
estimating,
product samples,
full product literature and sample 
cards, and
copies of relevant test results.
REFERENCES
Further information is available in 
the following Sections of this edition 
of the RIBA Product Selector and 
from the company:
Stone flooring 
(43)S
Roofing slates 
(47) 
Interior furniture and 
fittings in stone 
(73), (74)
Stone in landscaping 
(90.4)
Stone Ye

Contact details

Cavendish House,
Kirkby-in-Furness,
Cumbria, LA17 7UN
Tel +44 (0)1229 889661
Fax +44 (0)1229 889466

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Tel +44 (0)20 7976 7676
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