Chimney Repairs & Repointing in Syston & Rothley

Chimney Repairs in Syston & Rothley: what to know

The roofs we work on in Syston & Rothley

• Village-centre houses under slate (The conservation areas of Syston, Rothley and Queniborough): Charnwood’s appraisals find Welsh slate most common, with Swithland slate on older buildings such as 70 High Street in Syston and Oak Cottage in Queniborough, and commonly in Rothley. Repairs need the matching slate, laid in the traditional way.
• Ridgeway houses (The Rothley Ridgeway conservation area): Large houses in red brick with hipped Swithland slate roofs and terracotta ridges, some with timber framing. Hips and ridges are the weak points, and the terracotta ridge tiles are worth saving and rebedding.
• Postwar homes (Syston’s estates, and East Goscote, built from 1962 by Jelson): Tiled roofs from the 1960s onward with flat-roofed garages and porches. Most need ridge, verge and roofline work now, and the earliest are ready for new underlay.

Planning and permission in Syston & Rothley

All of these villages are in Charnwood, which has designated conservation areas at Syston, Rothley, Rothley Ridgeway, Queniborough, Rearsby, Barkby, Thurcaston and Cropston. Syston’s, designated in 1975, contains 17 listed buildings, and Rothley’s dates from 1972. Queniborough’s appraisal calls concrete tiles out of character, so a re-roof in any of the old centres is best done in slate or clay. For an unlisted house, re-covering in matching materials normally needs no consent; dormers, extensions and listed buildings do.