"Stefek Zaba" wrote in message
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Nick wrote:

A rough calculation gives 130,000 roof tiles. That's a lot of small
spaces.

Possibly a bit *too* rough ;-) I think of a rooftile as being about a
foot square; let's halve that to (over-)allow for overlap. Your palace
then has a roof area of 65,000 square feet - let's see, 80x80 is 6,400,
which would be a large-but-possible house (say a 20x20 yard footprint,
wot with the roof being sloped), but 65,000 would be square-root-of-10
bigger on each side, so maybe 60-70 yards square. A not insubstantial
building plot, but house-wise getting on for Footballer's Wives
territory ;-)

This is an 'L' shaped late tudor building. The roof tiles are of the peg
variety and are approx. 9" wide x 12" long. The size varies as these are
hand made tiles.
The outer walls of the 'L' are approx. 240ft x 200. The rough calculation
given by me was provided by the best roofer I have ever come across. Oh &
by the way, the adjoining barns have approx. twice as many tiles; IIRC
overlap of tiles is 3/1. You obviously like figures ~ go figure!

As you say a not insubstantial building plot but it is not a palace,
maintainance costs are huge. You are most welcome to the footballers'
wives.