Sawston Hall is a Grade I listed Tudor manor house dating from the 16th century, and its listing records plain tiled roofs with leaded valleys and flats. That mix sets the tone for a lot of the roof work in the older part of the village. The conservation area appraisal lists thatch, plain clay tile and natural slate among the roof materials here. We work on the tile and slate, plus the lead valleys and flats that go with them: stripping and relaying plain tile, replacing slipped and cracked slates, and repairing lead where water is being held rather than carried off. Roofs of this age usually fail at the joints and the lead long before the covering itself gives up, which is why the valley detailing on Sawston's older roofs is the first thing we get up and look at.
Sawston sits on the River Cam about seven miles (11 km) south of Cambridge. It has never had a railway station of its own, and Whittlesford Parkway on the West Anglia Main Line is roughly two miles away, so materials and access here are entirely a road job. The chalk and clay in the area contain a lot of flint, which often finds its way into older local construction, and flint walls want a careful hand when a roof is opened up at the wall head.
The majority of buildings in the older village are fairly modest in scale and rarely rise above two storeys, with cottages abutting the pavement nearer the centre and development running one plot deep along the road. Walls are rendered clunch and buff, gault and soft red brick. That means short roof planes, tight eaves with little room for scaffold, and repairs that have to match what is already up there.
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