Armour Shield Roofing Services Coalville is based just up the road from Ibstock in Hugglescote, so the village and its neighbours are close to home. We repair and re-roof the Victorian terraces off High Street with their shared chimney stacks, the clay-tiled semis around them, and homes in Heather, Battram, Nailstone and Bagworth.
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| Covered from | Our base on Station Road, Hugglescote, Coalville — about 2 miles away as the crow flies |
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| Postcode district | LE67 |
| Local council (planning) | North West Leicestershire District Council |
| Conservation areas include | Ibstock |
| Roofs we see most | Victorian terraces with shared stacks · Clay-tiled semis and interwar houses · Colliery villages |
| Also covering | High Street, Heather, Nailstone, Bagworth and Battram |
| Every job | Free quote · £5 million public liability insurance · 15-year written guarantee |
Local details checked and updated September 2026.
Ibstock is a former mining village a couple of miles south of Coalville in LE67 — a place whose name is stamped on bricks all over the country, home of the Ibstock brickworks. Long Victorian terraces along and off High Street still carry original slate and shared chimney stacks, with clay-tiled semis and modern infill around them and the villages of Heather, Nailstone and Bagworth close by. From our Coalville base we handle repairs, re-roofs and roofline renewal across the village and its neighbours.
High Street and the streets off it
Many still carry their original slate, with one chimney stack serving two houses. Repointing, new flaunching and lead flashings around those stacks, and refixing slipped slates after a storm, are the typical work.
Around the village centre and along the roads out to Heather and Coalville
Clay tiles last well, but the nails, battens and ridge bedding beneath them wear out. When tiles start slipping across a whole slope, stripping the roof and re-laying the sound tiles on new battens and underlay is often the best value.
Heather, Battram, Nailstone and Bagworth
Battram was built by Nailstone Colliery to house its workers. Across these villages older brick cottages sit alongside postwar and modern homes, so the work runs from chimney repairs on the old houses to gutters and verges on the new ones.
Ibstock grew up on coal and clay. The colliery was sunk in 1825, fireclay was found alongside the coal, and the brickworks that followed became Ibstock Brick, the name now stamped on bricks all over the country. The result is a village of solid brick terraces and chimney stacks that have stood up well, but whose mortar joints, flaunching and lead flashings have now taken well over a century of weather. Those joints are where water gets in, long before the brickwork itself fails.
Ibstock has a conservation area managed by North West Leicestershire District Council, and its best-known listed building is the Church of St Denys, Grade II* and dating from the early 1300s, where William Laud, later Archbishop of Canterbury, was rector. Nailstone and Bagworth, two of the villages we cover from Ibstock, come under Hinckley and Bosworth Borough Council instead, so if a job there needs consent, that is the council to ask.
Planning authority for Ibstock: North West Leicestershire District Council. We will tell you at the quote if your job needs consent, but the council has the final say.
Shared stacks on the High Street terraces are a common source of leaks: failed flaunching, open joints and cracked flashings where the stack meets the slate.
Chimney Repairs in Ibstock →Original slate on the terraces is often still worth saving; replacing the broken slates and refixing the slipped ones keeps a sound roof going for years.
Roof Repairs in Ibstock →Where a clay-tiled or slate roof is slipping across the whole slope, a re-roof that reuses the sound tiles gives a watertight roof with modern breathable underlay.
New Roofs in Ibstock →Timber fascias and old cast iron or plastic gutters on the terraces and interwar semis are often due for renewal, and a leaking gutter soaks a brick wall.
Roofline & Guttering in Ibstock →“We noticed a leak coming from above a bay window, so I found Roof Shield on Google and called Westley. I spoke to him at 9am, and by 11am Leonard had been out, assessed the problem, and provided a reasonable quote.”
Many of the terraces off High Street share a stack across the party wall. A shared stack is usually treated as a party structure under the Party Wall etc. Act 1996, and where repairs are needed because of disrepair, the Act splits the cost according to each owner’s use of it and responsibility for the defect. Most neighbours simply agree it between themselves; the Act sets out a formal notice route if they cannot. We can price the stack as one job so both households can see the cost before work starts.
Often, yes. Natural slate can last well over a century, and on many of the village’s terraces it is the nails and battens that have failed rather than the slate. A slate that slips has usually lost its nail and can be refixed with a clip. When too many are slipping, stripping the roof and re-laying the sound slates on new battens and underlay keeps the original look for less than a new slate roof.
No. Ibstock, Heather and Battram are in North West Leicestershire, but Nailstone and Bagworth come under Hinckley and Bosworth Borough Council. It only matters when a roof job needs planning permission, such as a new dormer, a roof extension or a change to a listed building, and we cover both sides of the boundary in exactly the same way.
All of Ibstock (LE67), including High Street, Heather, Nailstone, Bagworth and Battram. Ibstock is a couple of miles from our Hugglescote base, and we cover Heather and Battram on the Ibstock side and Nailstone and Bagworth across the boundary in Hinckley and Bosworth. Every quote is free and no-obligation, the work is covered by £5 million public liability insurance, and our workmanship is guaranteed in writing for 15 years.
Coalville’s miners’ terraces fail in set ways: nail sickness, perished torching, rotten valley boards, shared stacks. When to repair and when to re-roof.
Read the guide →New roof costs in Coalville for 2026: a re-roof on a typical semi runs £4,000–£6,500 and a detached £6,000–£9,000+. What moves the price, and why.
Read the guide →Storm damage to a Coalville roof: make the house safe, photograph it from the ground, then get a make-safe before the permanent repair. Free quotes.
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