Great Dunmow was granted its market charter in 1227, and that shifted the focus of the town from Church End to the High Street. That old core is still the shape of the place, and it is why so much roof work here happens on buildings that were never put up to modern rules. The parish church of St Mary the Virgin is Grade I listed. The Old Town Hall in the Market Place dates from 1578, when it was put up for the borough corporation, and it takes in parts of a 15th-century guildhall. Roofs of that age move and settle, and they want repairing with materials that suit them rather than stripping off and starting again. We work on them in the order that matters: sound timber first, then the covering, then the flashings and rainwater goods that keep water off the walls.
Great Dunmow sits about midway between Bishop's Stortford and Braintree, about 5 miles east of Stansted Airport. The A120 bypasses the town; until the 1970s it ran through the town centre. Passenger trains stopped in 1952 and the town is no longer served directly by the National Rail network. We also cover Barnston, about 1 3/4 miles south-east, and Little Dunmow, about 3 miles east-southeast.
About 250 buildings in the parish are individually listed, roughly 170 of them inside the conservation area designated in 1970. Timber frame and plaster with tiled or slate roofs is common in the older streets, thatch far less so. That means matching coverings, sound lead flashings and careful work around chimney stacks instead of off-the-shelf replacements.
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