UK Manufacturers of Mechanically-fixed Ventilated Façade Systems

Shackerley manufactures mechanically-fixed ventilated façade systems for commercial, residential, healthcare, education and public sector construction projects throughout the UK.
Our fully prefabricated façade systems include porcelain stone, engineered stone, natural stone, terracotta and BrickClad® mechanically-fixed brick facades, all manufactured installation-ready in our ISO 9001 certified Lancashire factories.
Designed for modern rainscreen construction, Shackerley façade systems combine high performance, fire safety, buildability and long-term durability with the architectural freedom of large format façade design.

UK Manufacturers of Mechanically-fixed Ventilated Façade Systems

Mechanically-fixed Porcelain Facades

Discover Shackerley’s high-performance porcelain facade systems, engineered for modern architectural exteriors. Our porcelain cladding solutions offer superior resistance to weather conditions, with low water absorption and freeze-thaw resilience. Ideal for sustainable and maintenance-free building designs, our porcelain facades are available in customizable finishes for durable and elegant exterior cladding."

Mechanically-fixed Porcelain Facades

Mechanically-fixed Surestone Facades

Our Surestone engineered stone cladding system offers an effective alternative to GRC facades for creating large format, lightweight natural stone façades.

Pre-fabricated as installation-ready panels in our ISO 9001 certified Lancashire factories, Surestone ensures exceptional performance and efficiency.

Ideal for floor-to-floor applications, it combines durability with excellent sustainability credentials, making it an excellent choice for high-quality façade projects.

Mechanically-fixed Surestone Facades

Our Surestone engineered stone cladding system offers an effective alternative to GRC facades for creating large format, lightweight natural stone façades.

Pre-fabricated as installation-ready panels in our ISO 9001 certified Lancashire factories, Surestone ensures exceptional performance and efficiency.

Ideal for floor-to-floor applications, it combines durability with excellent sustainability credentials, making it an excellent choice for high-quality façade projects.

Mechanically-fixed Natural Stone Façades

Enhance your building’s exterior with Shackerley’s natural stone facade systems. Our stone cladding solutions provide unmatched durability, excellent UV resistance, and thermal performance, ensuring long-lasting beauty in all weather conditions. Ideal for classic and modern architectural projects, these facades offer a sustainable and low-maintenance solution with the timeless appeal of natural stone.

Mechanically-fixed Natural Stone Façades

Mechanically-fixed Brick Facades

Our BrickClad® mechanically-fixed brick cladding system enables you to specify a brick façade that uses genuine, kiln-fired clay bricks, while allowing your project to benefit from the installation advantages of contemporary façade system.

Choose from our BrickClad® Rustic brick façade system or our BrickClad® Saxony brick façade system, both of which offer a wide variety of brick colourways and finishes for a traditional brick façade with an innovative brick cladding fixing system.

Mechanically-fixed Brick Facades

Mechanically-fixed Facades with Ibstock Bricks

Explore Shackerley’s BrickClad® system featuring genuine Ibstock clay bricks – the UK’s most specified brick brand. This mechanically-fixed, ventilated brick slip solution offers the timeless aesthetic of traditional brickwork with the performance and reliability of modern construction. Ideal for high-rise, modular, and design-led facades.

Mechanically-fixed Facades with Ibstock Bricks

Unitised Facades

Architects choose Shackerley’s unitised façade systems to streamline construction, enhancing buildability, quality, and on-site safety. Leveraging our technical expertise and advanced ISO 9001 certified UK façade factories, we manufacture unitised facades to precise specifications using SureClad®️ and BrickClad®️ systems.
Our skilled team pre-installs SureClad®️ and BrickClad®️ facades onto metal frames within our controlled factory environment, ensuring fast and consistent on-site installation with superior quality.

Unitised Facades

Mechanically-fixed Terracotta Facades

Our SureClad® Terracotta cladding system provides an A1 fire rated, non-combustible terracotta façade that combines the tradition and natural warmth of terracotta, with a contemporary rainscreen system.

Shackerley’s unglazed, extruded SureClad® Terracotta cladding panels provide an innovative, attractive and environmentally friendly fire safe cladding solution for your façade, available in a wide range of colourways with a natural, unglazed finish.

Mechanically-fixed Terracotta Facades

Shackerley is a Double Facades Awards Finalist

Shackerley’s SureClad® and BrickClad® façade systems have both been recognised by the Façade Awards, with two of our projects being named as finalists in the 2026 shortlist. In the ‘Best use of a Rainscreen using Glass Ceramic or Stone’ category, our SureClad® Porcelain Stone façade system has been recognised for the Hertfordshire Police HQ building in Welwyn Garden City, where it was installed as part of £55.5m project.

BrickClad® involved in hotel ‘first’ in Dublin

Shackerley’s BrickClad® mechanically fixed brick cladding system has been used as part of the transformation of Eircom’s former Brutalist office building in Dublin, creating Western Europe’s first ever Hilton Home2 Suites hotel. The eight-storey former Telephone House building on Marlborough Street has been reimagined as a 290-room hotel with a 1,127m2 BrickClad® façade in a 215 x 65 x 25mm beige-coloured brick from our extensive ‘Saxony’ BrickClad® range.

SureClad® façade for major Oxford St Project

Shackerley has supplied a complex SureClad® façade involving three different materials, c.6000 pieces, and a range of bespoke details, including fins milled from a solid block of SureStone®. The 2000m2 SureClad® façade is part of a £132 million refurbishment and extension of an art deco department store building on London’s Oxford Street.

Shackerley’s SureClad® Sandstone arrives at Leeds Station

Shackerley’s SureStone® façade system has been installed as part of the £46.1 million Leeds Station Sustainable Travel Gateway project. Using sandstone quarried in Yorkshire and processed as fully prefabricated, installation-ready façade panels at our ISO 9001 certified factories in Lancashire, the project is part of a programme of improvements that support active travel and ensure that people can enter, exit, and wait for taxis and urban transport services safely.

Shackerley welcomes Sir Lindsay Hoyle to Euxton HQ

We welcomed Speaker of the House of Commons and Chorley MP, Sir Lindsay Hoyle, to our Lancashire HQ for a second time last week for a discussion about the urgent need for more apprentice training funding.

BrickClad® Facade has impact in Epping

Shackerley’s BrickClad® brick cladding system has been used to create the detailed facades of a new leisure centre in Epping. Installed as part of a Kingspan project, the façade features a variety of specially formed bricks and has been completed with our BrickClad® rails secured directly onto the Kingspan panels.

Shackerley takes up residence at Material Source in Manchester

As part of our commitment to engaging with architects and specifiers, we have become a partner at Material Source, with a permanent installation at their Manchester Studio, a stone’s throw from Victoria Station. We are always keen to showcase our systems, materials and prefabrication capabilities to architects and specifiers, regularly hosting tours at our ISO 9001 certified factories in Lancashire. But we recognise that time is precious and that travelling to site at our HQ is a big time commitment, so our partnership with Material Source provides the ideal space and location to experience our products and meet with our team.

Shackerley provides bright white M&S facade

Shackerley’s SureClad® porcelain stone cladding system has been used to create the bright white facade for the Marks & Spencer store inside the Merry Hill shopping centre in Dudley, West Midlands. The specification called for a lightweight façade system suitable for use on the external facades of the retail shell unit, within the main shopping centre building.

BrickClad® façade makes a splash at leisure centre

Shackerley’s BrickClad® mechanically fixed brick cladding system has been used to create the façade of a new £14m leisure centre facility in Shropshire. Our BBA-certified brick façade system has been used to create a striking brick feature wall for a 255m2 area of the new Whitchurch Swimming and Fitness Centre, as part of a Kingspan project. The installation has seen the BrickClad® Magnelis® steel rails fixed directly to the Kingspan Quadcore Karrier panel; an installation method that has been CWCT certified as a suitable façade build-up for projects where Kingspan insulation panels and the Shackerley BrickClad® brick cladding system are used in combination.

SureClad® Façade for new Police HQ

The Shackerley SureClad®️ Porcelain Stone façade system has been installed as part of a £55.5m project to build a new headquarters for Hertfordshire Police in Welwyn Garden City. We manufactured a total of 9,011 façade pieces for the 4024m2 SureClad® Porcelain Stone façade at our ISO 9001 certified Lancashire factories.

Façade Award Win for our Animate Preston Project

Shackerley’s SureClad® façade system has once again been recognised in the annual Façade Awards, with the £45 million Animate Preston project being named as the winner of the Best use of a Rainscreen using Glass, Ceramics or Stone. The Façade Awards 2025 were held at the Midland Hotel in Manchester on November 7th and Shackerley was named alongside Lester Cladding North West as delivery partners for the prestigious project, which has created a new leisure destination in Preston, including an eight-screen cinema, a 16-lane bowling alley, and five restaurants.

Shackerley prefabricates Portland Stone façade

Shackerley has prefabricated the Portland Stone façade panels for a prestigious high street property in London’s busy Edgeware Road. Prominently positioned on the junction with Upper Berkeley Street, 68-74 Edgeware Road sits at the gateway into The Portman Estate, in the heart of the West End. The refurbishment of the ground and first floor facades updates and enhances the property at street level, while remaining in-keeping with the building’s original design and the architecture of surrounding properties.

Shackerley creates facades with care for later living

Shackerley’s expertise in manufacturing installation-ready cladding to exacting tolerances has proved invaluable to another complex façade project, with our SureClad® porcelain stone system used for a care home project in Milton Keynes.

Shackerley appoints new Business Development Director

As part of our plan for sustainable, strategic growth, we have appointed Fraser Brown as our new Business Development Director. Business Development Director is a new post at Shackerley and reflects the high demand across our range of façade systems, including SureClad® porcelain stone, SureStone® and natural stone, and our BrickClad® ranges.

BrickClad® tested with Siderise Firestopping

The Shackerley BrickClad® system has successfully passed fire resistance tests demonstrating the performance of our A-rated mechanically fixed brick façades in combination with Siderise firestopping. We partnered with Siderise for the tests, which were carried out at the company’s Siderise Innovation Centre under strict test conditions. Full datasets are now available to evidence the performance of both the firestopping and the façade system when used in combination during 90-minute tests.

A snapshot of quality control at Shackerley

Every piece of every facade that we fully prefabricate as installation-ready panels a our ISO 900 certified Summit factory in Lancashire goes through a rigorous quality control process and here is just a snapshot of a pallet going through quality control. This pallet has a combination of XXL l.3m x 1.2 m SureClad® porcelain stone panels, and smaller façade panels, all made to order in our quality assured factory conditions.

BrickClad® delivers for Safestore Kingspan project

Shackerley’s BrickClad® mechanically fixed brick cladding system has provided an ideal solution for a self-storage unit in Hackney, used in combination with Kingspan Quadcore Karrier panels. The project in the Lea Bridge area of the London Borough is for Safestore, the UK’s largest provider of self-storage facilities. It has leveraged the cost and efficiency benefits of fixing the BrickClad® Magnelis® support rails directly to the Kingspan Quadcore Karrier panels.

Shackerley’s BrickClad® goes green at Vaux Brewery site

Shackerley is supplying our BrickClad® mechanically fixed brick cladding system for the redevelopment of the former Vaux Brewery site in Sunderland, including bespoke green glazed BrickClad® bricks that have been specially produced for the project. Founded in 1806, Vaux Brewery brewed beers including Sunderland Best Bitter for almost 200 years before the facility closed in the early 2000s, and the site is an important part of the city’s heritage. It is now being redeveloped as the ‘Vaux housing neighbourhood’ by Sunderland City Council as part of the ambitious Riverside Sunderland regeneration masterplan.