Finchingfield is a village and civil parish in North Essex, a primarily rural area about 6 miles from Thaxted, with Saffron Walden and Braintree the nearest larger towns. The Guildhall on Church Hill is listed Grade I, timber framed and plastered, and roofed with handmade red clay tiles. That is the standard the rest of the village gets judged against, and it is why roof work here is a matching job as much as a fixing one. We come over from Haverhill for repairs, re-roofs, ridge and verge work, flashings, gutters and storm damage. Old timber frames move and settle, so we get up and look properly before we price anything. Around the duck pond and village green we plan scaffold and van access first, because there is rarely room to improvise.
The district council designated the conservation area here on 22 October 1981, so what goes back on a roof gets looked at closely. The river has carved out a valley with a steep northern bank, The Causeway, and off that The Pightle is a very narrow lane enclosed on both sides. The B1057 approaches from the north and the B1053 comes in from the east, so we work out the access before we load the van.
The cottages around the green and pond are Georgian and medieval, with steeply pitched roofs of thatch or tile. Plain tiles and pan-tiles are common, while the low-pitched slate roofs belong to later nineteenth-century properties. In practice that means hand-sorted peg tile patching, pan-tiles stripped and re-laid on sound battens, slate repairs, and lead valleys and soakers detailed to suit each roof.
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