Withersfield is a small village built around its parish church, St Mary the Virgin, and a good part of the old village is thatched. The thatched cottages are mostly timber framed with dormers set into the roof, and they sit alongside tiled farmhouses and a few red brick houses. Across the parish we take on dormer roofs, chimney stacks, lead flashings, tiled extensions and full re-roofs. On a thatched house we can deal with the parts that are not thatch, such as chimneys, lead and tiled extensions, and we will tell you when a specialist thatcher is the right person for the job. On older and listed properties we check what consent is needed before work starts, and we match what is already on the roof.
Withersfield is about two miles north-north-west of Haverhill town centre and shares the town's CB9 postcode district. Its conservation area was designated in August 1973. Three buildings are listed Grade II*: St Mary's church, Jacob's Manor and the barn at Hall Farm, which began as a 16th century double moated manor hall. The 1870s Imperial Gazetteer records that the church was partly rebuilt and enlarged in 1868. We also cover Burton Green, Great Wratting and West Wickham.
Fourteen of the 25 listed entries in the parish have thatched roofs, among them the White Horse Inn and Long Cottage, whose thatch has a scalloped ridge. Sunbeam Cottage, joined to Long Cottage, is timber framed with cob infill under pantiles. The tiled houses include Turnpike House, a 16th century jettied house, and Jacob's Manor, early 18th century red brick with flat-headed dormers. Overall, housing in the village is mainly detached.
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New pitched roofs for extensions, new builds and outbuildings in Haverhill and the villages around it, in concrete or cl
When a roof is past repairing, we strip it back to the timbers and re-roof it to current standards. Many Haverhill homes
Slipped tiles, cracked slates, leaking flashings and crumbling ridges are the repairs we are called to most in Haverhill
Flat roofs on garages, extensions and dormers across Haverhill. We replace failing felt with GRP fibreglass or EPDM rubb
Rotten fascias, sagging gutters and cracked soffits let water into the roof edge long before it shows inside. We replace
Lead seals the joints where a roof meets a chimney, a wall or a dormer, and where it fails, water gets in. We fit and re
When a chimney stack is leaning, crumbling or letting water in, repointing is not always enough. We repair and rebuild c
A chimney you no longer use still needs maintaining, and it is still a common source of leaks. We take redundant stacks
Cladding protects walls and dormers from the weather and changes how a building looks. We fit and repair timber, fibre c
Roofs on industrial units, shops, offices and farm buildings in and around Haverhill. We repair and replace flat roofs,
Storm damage, active leak, damaged ridge - we aim to be on-site within 24 hours.
