What is being measured?
Nominal UK standard-format brick length, excluding the mortar joint. Historic and non-standard bricks differ.
Use the named object, variant and dimension. A manufactured or natural object can differ from this reference.
- Dimension
- brick length excluding mortar
- Reference value
- 215 mm
- Evidence
- Nominal standard size
- In metres
- 0.215 m
- Variant
- 215 × 102.5 × 65 mm UK format
Put the length in perspective
One UK standard-format brick represents approximately 2.51 card lengths measured end to end. This is a length ratio; it does not calculate how the objects pack or fit.
UK standard-format brick · 0.215 m
Metre · 1 m
Foot (international) · 0.3048 m