Most of central Sudbury is built from Suffolk White brick out of local factories, and the roofs above it run to a pattern: low pitched slate, broken here and there by steep pitched plain tiled gables. Behind plenty of those fronts is a plastered timber frame, usually plain tiled as well. It is a mix that rewards a roofer who has met it before. Shallow pitched slate is unforgiving of a slipped course or a tired underlay, and a steep tiled gable wants its verges, valleys and flashings done properly rather than smeared over with mortar. We handle both, plus the leadwork where the two meet. On Market Hill and the older streets running off it, the job is usually to match what is already up there and leave the roof looking like it belongs.
Sudbury station is the end of a single track branch line from Marks Tey, 11 miles 53 chains of it, so we come by road. The town sits on the River Stour near the Essex border, where the common land water meadows were liable to flooding through the winter. Buildings along Friars Street are largely listed Grade II and II*, so scaffold and access want planning around the street rather than the other way round.
Grade I listing here runs to the three 15th century flint and stone churches, the timber framed Chantry and Salters Hall complex on Stour Street, and Gainsborough's House, and around 300 more buildings sit on a local list of unlisted heritage. In practice that means replacing like for like, with listed building consent to sort out before any covering changes.
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Storm damage, active leak, damaged ridge - we aim to be on-site within 24 hours.
