Roofing on Henley-in-Arden housing
Henley-in-Arden is one long medieval street of timber-framed and Georgian-fronted buildings, a large number of them listed and almost all of them inside the conservation area. Roofs here are plain clay tile or, on some of the older buildings, hand-made tiles laid to an uneven, undulating line that a modern machine-made tile cannot copy. The failure pattern is slow: nail sickness, slipped tiles, timber that has sagged over centuries, and lead flashings that have been patched with mastic by someone who did not know better. The first job on any of these is to work out what the roof is made of and what, if anything, can be reused.
Where a building is listed, re-roofing needs listed building consent from Stratford-on-Avon District Council even if the work is like for like, and the materials will usually be specified: reclaimed or hand-made clay, sometimes a particular ridge detail. Lead times are longer and we say so at the survey rather than discovering it once the scaffold is up. Away from the High Street, Beaudesert, Wootton Wawen and the twentieth-century housing around the edges have conventional roofs where the usual rules apply and a repair or a re-cover is priced like anywhere else.
What we are asked for here
- Careful strip and re-lay of clay tiles on listed and timber-framed buildings
- Leadwork, flashings and chimney repairs on period roofs
- Sourcing reclaimed and hand-made tiles to match
- Conventional re-roofs and repairs on the newer housing around the town
Planning and building control
Planning and building control go through Stratford-on-Avon District Council. Listed building consent is a separate process from planning permission, and both may apply.
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Questions
Roofing in Henley-in-Arden, answered straight
My house is listed. Can I just replace the roof like for like?
Not without consent. Listed building consent from Stratford-on-Avon District Council is needed even for like-for-like work on a listed building, and it is a separate process from planning permission. We will tell you which applies at the survey and help with the application.
Can you match hand-made tiles?
Usually, from reclaimed stock or current hand-made ranges, but they cost more and take longer to source than a machine-made tile. We price the matched option honestly rather than quietly substituting a modern equivalent that the conservation officer will reject.
Do you take on smaller roof repairs in Henley?
Yes. Henley is close enough to Redditch that a handful of slipped tiles or a leaking flashing is worth the run, and on a period roof a small repair done properly is often what prevents a much bigger job.
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