Bracken Brown
Ibstock Bracken Brown is a red wirecut clay facing brick, with a rusticated texture, made at Ibstock’s Aldridge factory. The public selector lists 215 × 102 × 65 mm dimensions, 25 N/mm² compressive strength, 12% water absorption.
Carbon and evidence
Product Evidence
Evidence currently held for the Ibstock product record.
Evidence Base
No declaration yetIbstock has not published an EPD or a quantified carbon figure for this product, so nothing on this card is numerical. The guidance below is qualitative — drawn from the product record and curated category knowledge — for early design discussion, not for figures.
Ibstock's published EPD library was checked on 2026-08-06 and contains no declaration covering this product code. Their ~33 product-group declarations cover the Ashdown, Birtley, Cattybrook, Chailey, Chesterton, Dorket Head, Eclipse, Leicester, Lodge Lane, Parkhouse and Throckley factories; this brick is not among the product codes they list. No figure has been borrowed from another group — bricks differ by recipe and kiln, so a neighbouring factory's number would be a wrong number, not an approximation.
Next step: request a current product EPD or manufacturer carbon declaration.
What's missing (2)
- •No current product EPD is recorded.
- •No quantified carbon result is recorded.
Sourced Product Claims
- Manufactured in United KingdomPublished sourceSource
Evidence Sources
Design & Specification Notes
Ibstock Bracken Brown is a red wirecut clay facing brick, with a rusticated texture, made at Ibstock’s Aldridge factory.
Typical Uses
- •Facade cladding
- •Weather protection
- •External accents
Key Performance
Weather-resistant finish for facade exposure.
Typical Service-Life Estimate
40 yearsSpecification Actions
- •Request a current product-specific EPD where available.
- •Calculate transport distances for primary materials.
- •Document material reuse or reclaimed content percentages.
Specification
- Product code
- A0297A
- Collection
- Clay Bricks
- Finish
- Rusticated Wirecut
- Thickness
- 65 mm
- Width
- 102 mm
- Length
- 215 mm
- Density
- 1470 kg/m³
- Composition
- Fired clay. Detailed constituent percentages are not declared in the public brick selector.
- Thermal
- Thermal conductivity 1.09 W/mK as published in selector
- Country of manufacture
- United Kingdom