Saffron Walden's older streets are built mostly of timber framing and brick, which Uttlesford District Council's conservation area appraisal names as the two most prevalent building materials. Timber framing in particular wants a roof that keeps water off the frame, and rendered brick suffers once water tracks behind it, so we work carefully around old wall plates, soft render and the historic pargetting that survives on several buildings here. The parish church of St Mary the Virgin has the tallest spire in Essex at 193 feet, and the roofs below it are high and awkward to reach without proper access. We handle repairs, re-roofs, leadwork, valleys, gutters and storm damage across the town and out to Sewards End and Littlebury. We work out the access before we price, rather than guessing from the ground.
Around 320 listed buildings sit inside the Saffron Walden conservation area, first designated in 1968 and revised in 1991, so plenty of roof work here needs listed building consent before a tile is lifted. Audley End railway station is 2 miles south-west of the town, at Wendens Ambo. Chimneys are called a key element of the roofscape in that same appraisal, and they are what we get called out to most.
Traditional roofs in the old core are steeply pitched clay peg tile or natural slate, with some thatch still in use. That mix means like-for-like peg tiles, sound battens and proper flashings rather than mortar fillets. Newer estates around the edges are mostly concrete interlocking tile, which is a different job again.
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