All Lord Lovelace’s fanciful tiles with orbs, bugles, stars and other designs, called minstrels” by the bricklayers, as well as the moulded coats of arms which adorn his buildings, were made at his Ockham Brickworks in Long Reach. The moulds for all these were made of wood and were double-sided with a different shape on each side. One of the moulds survives and has been donated to Guildford Museum.

The white sand for the cream-coloured bricks was dug on Ockham Common, the red sand for the terracotta-coloured bricks and tiles came from near Ripley and the clay was dug at the Long Reach brickyard.

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