Middlesbrough · Teesside
Our showroom is in Middlesbrough, so this is home ground — choose your brick in your hand at Thompson Yard, then have it fitted by the same people who sold it to you.
Five-star reviewed on Google · 25-year workmanship guarantee
Local Coverage
Every part of Middlesbrough, from the Victorian terraces around Linthorpe and Ayresome to the newer estates at Coulby Newham, Hemlington, Marton and Nunthorpe.
Town-centre flats, bars, cafés and shop fit-outs as well as domestic work.
Ormesby, Acklam, Berwick Hills, Grove Hill, Easterside, Thorntree and Park End.
The showroom and yard are at Thompson Yard, Middlesbrough, TS3 8RQ, so nowhere in the town is far away. We do not publish a guaranteed response time — that is Not Provided — but a Middlesbrough address means samples, measurements and site looks are straightforward to arrange.
Everything is supplied from our own showroom at Thompson Yard, Middlesbrough, TS3 8RQ, open Monday to Saturday 9am–5:30pm and Sunday 10am–2pm, so Middlesbrough customers can handle the brick before committing to it rather than choosing from a screen.
Property Types
Linthorpe, Ayresome and the streets off Roman Road are full of solid-wall terraces with original chimney breasts, high ceilings and narrow hallways. These are ideal slip jobs: a full brick skin would swallow the room, but a 20mm slip wall gives back the masonry character the house was built with.
Acklam, Park End and Berwick Hills semis usually have plastered chimney breasts where a fireplace was removed decades ago. Reinstating a brick breast around a log burner is one of the most common jobs we do in the town.
Coulby Newham, Hemlington and Marton properties tend to be flat-finished throughout. A single brick feature wall in a lounge or a brick splashback in the kitchen is often all the room needs to stop reading as a builder's box.
Town-centre bars, barbers, cafés and salons use brick slips for the same reason: a hard-wearing surface with genuine texture that photographs well and does not date the way a painted feature wall does.
Services
The complete service: choose the brick at our showroom, we work out the quantities, then supply and fit the wall from start to finish.
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Living rooms, hallways, bedrooms and bars — a real brick finish fitted flat, level and clean, without the mess or weight of full brickwork.
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Extensions, render replacement and full elevations clad in brick slips so a new build reads as solid masonry from the street.
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Chimney breasts and log-burner recesses clad in your chosen brick, with corner slips used so every return looks like genuine brickwork.
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Brick slip splashbacks and kitchen walls that survive daily life, sealed and finished to a standard you'd be happy to photograph.
Learn moreBuying the slips only? Choose from our full range at the Middlesbrough showroom and take away or arrange delivery.
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See and handle the full range in person before you commit. It is far easier to choose a brick in your hand than on a screen.
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Fit-outs, developments and new-build plots where the finish is inspected and photographed. Specialist labour that works to your programme.
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Corner slips, arches, reveals and returns. The detailing that decides whether a brick slip wall reads as genuine masonry.
Learn moreEvery one of those services is available in Middlesbrough and the surrounding Teesside area. Browse the full brick slip range, see all our services or go back to the homepage.
Why Us
Thompson Yard, TS3 8RQ. The full range is here, so Middlesbrough customers can see and handle every blend in daylight rather than choosing from a photograph — open Monday to Saturday 9am–5:30pm and Sunday 10am–2pm.
Setting out, bond, joint colour and corner returns decided by a specialist rather than improvised on site. Brick slips are all we do.
Every installation is backed by our 25-year workmanship guarantee, whether it is a single chimney breast in Acklam or a full rear elevation in Nunthorpe.
Our Google reviews repeatedly mention the same three things: the showroom advice, the standard of the finish, and the fact that surfaces were protected and the house left clean.
Job counts for individual areas and guaranteed response times are Not Provided — we would rather leave a number out than invent one. What we will confirm: 30 years in the trade, trading as Bespoke Brickwork since 2015, our own showroom, a 25-year workmanship guarantee and a five-star Google review record.
Local Conditions
Middlesbrough's older housing stock is largely solid-wall construction. Before any slip work goes onto an internal wall in a terrace, the substrate is checked for moisture and soundness — cladding over an unresolved damp problem simply hides it and risks the bond later.
A huge number of local fireplaces were bricked up, plastered over, then reopened during a later renovation. What is behind the plaster is rarely tidy: patched brick, old render, soot-stained work. That is exactly the situation brick slips solve — a clean, deliberate brick face over a prepared substrate.
Teesside sits close enough to the North Sea for driving rain and winter freeze–thaw cycling to matter on external elevations. Exterior cladding here is specified with that exposure in mind, and the substrate is assessed before anything is ordered.
Rear extensions added across the town over the last few decades often sit in a brick that never matched the house. Weathered and antique blends are usually a far better match to older Middlesbrough brickwork than a crisp modern brick.
Our Process
Tell us the room or elevation, send photographs and rough measurements, and we will tell you what is realistic before anyone travels.
Compare blends in daylight at Thompson Yard, or take samples away so you can see them against your own light, paint and flooring.
The wall is measured and the substrate assessed for soundness and moisture. Setting out, bond and corner detail are agreed before anything is ordered.
Surfaces protected, slips fixed to the agreed setting out, corners formed with purpose-made corner slips so no cut edges show.
Joints pointed and finished to the agreed colour, the area cleaned down, and the work handed over with our 25-year workmanship guarantee.
Questions
Anything not covered here? Ring Stuart on +44 7747 771113 or email stuart_fletcher@live.co.uk.
Yes — Middlesbrough is where we are based. The showroom and yard are at Thompson Yard, Middlesbrough, TS3 8RQ.
Thompson Yard, Middlesbrough, TS3 8RQ. Open Monday to Saturday 9am–5:30pm and Sunday 10am–2pm.
We do not publish a guaranteed response time — that is Not Provided. Ring Stuart on the number above and he will tell you honestly what is realistic for your job.
Every wall differs in size, brick choice and access, so we quote individually. Quotes are free — send photographs and rough measurements to get started.
Brick slip work is planned work rather than emergency work, and we do not advertise an emergency call-out service. Ring us with your timescale and we will be straight with you about what is possible.
Often yes. Weathered, antique and reclaimed-look blends usually match older local brickwork far better than a new brick. Bring a photograph of the elevation to the showroom and compare samples in daylight.
Yes — bars, cafés, barbers, salons and shop fit-outs. Access, phasing and trading hours are agreed for the specific premises.
Yes. We supply on their own as well as supply and fit, and we will work out quantities including corner slips and wastage with you.
The same as everywhere we work: a 25-year workmanship guarantee on every installation.
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Brick slips in DarlingtonIn Summary
Middlesbrough is where the showroom sits and where most of our work starts, from terraced chimney breasts in Linthorpe and Ayresome to extension elevations in Nunthorpe and Marton, and bar and café interiors in the town centre. Because the yard is at Thompson Yard, TS3 8RQ, choosing, ordering and fitting all happen through the same people, so nothing is lost between the sample you liked and the wall you end up with. If you are in Middlesbrough, the sensible first step is a visit to the showroom with a photograph of the wall.
Ready to move? Use the quote form, see every service we offer, browse the brick slip range or check the other areas we cover.
Next Step
Send photographs and rough measurements of the wall and Stuart will come back with a free, no-obligation quote for supply, or supply and fit. Every installation in Middlesbrough is backed by our 25-year workmanship guarantee.
30 years in the trade · 25-year workmanship guarantee · Five-star reviewed on Google