All Saints, the parish church in Wickhambrook, is a mainly C14 flint and stone church with stone dressings, and its C14 tower has castellated parapets with flint and stone chequer work. The nave carries a C16-C17 hammer-beam roof. That is a fair introduction to the village as a whole: old fabric, and roofs that have been patched and recovered by hand for centuries. Work on buildings of that age is slower and fussier than a modern estate roof. Rafter feet rot where coverings have been holding water, ridges move as frames settle, and a repair done in the wrong material causes more trouble than the leak did. We take that on alongside the everyday jobs: slipped tiles, failed valleys, split guttering, flat roofs over extensions, and full recovers where a roof has come to the end of its life.
The village lies on the A143 between Bury St Edmunds and Haverhill, about ten miles (16 km) from each. It is the largest village by area in Suffolk, with eleven greens and several hamlets spread across a 6.5 square mile area. Two jobs in the same parish can be a fair drive apart, so we quote by the green or hamlet: Meeting Green, Nunnery Green, Clopton Green, Farley Green and Wickham Street.
Much of the older stock is timber-framed and plastered. Gaines Hall at Attleton Green is a C16 house of one storey and attics with a thatched roof and two gabled dormers. Wickham House is C17, two storeys and attics, and tiled. So thatch, plain tile and dormer detailing sit side by side, and any repair has to match what is already up there.
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