According to the roof tile material can be divided into:

(1) sintered clay tile roof

Such as mechanism flat tile, small green tile, glazed tile, Chinese cylinder tile, Spanish cylinder tile, fish scale tile, diamond tile, Japanese flat tile and so on. The representative buildings include the Chinese tile on the former British Consulate residence cottage at 33 Zhongshandong 1st Road, the Spanish tile on 45 Fenyang Road, the fish scale tile on 39-41 Sinan Road, the current dome of the Shanghai Museum of Literature and History, and the Japanese-style flat tile on Lane 660 Macao Road.

(2) Metal tile roof

Such as iron corrugated tile (commonly known as corrugated iron plate), copper tile, green lead tile and so on. The representative buildings include iron corrugated tile of No. 6 Zhongshandong 1st Road, copper tile of the North building of Peace Hotel, No. 20 Zhongshandong 1st Road, and blue lead tile of Mahle Villa, No. 30 South Shaanxi Road.

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