Roof Repairs in Market Bosworth

Roof Repairs in Market Bosworth: what to know

Slipped tiles, lifted eaves and worn verges on cottage roofs, put right before the weather gets into the timbers.

The roofs we work on in Market Bosworth

• Market-town brick and clay tile (The Market Place and streets of Market Bosworth’s conservation area): The council’s appraisal, adopted in 2014 with its own roof survey, records red brick as the main walling and clay tiles and slate as the commonest roofs, with plain tiles on the Market Place rows. Plain clay tiles can be matched from reclaimed stock, and small repairs done tile by tile.
• Village cottages (Sutton Cheney, Shackerstone, Congerstone and Stoke Golding): Reddish-brick cottages under clay tile with oversailing eaves in Sutton Cheney, steep gables of clay tile or slate in Shackerstone, and a Swithland slate roof at The Limes in Stoke Golding. Keeping each village’s roofline and materials is the priority in any repair.
• Twentieth-century village homes (Barlestone, Carlton and the newer edges of the larger villages): Postwar and later houses with concrete or clay tiles, flat-roofed garages and uPVC roofline. The work here is mostly straightforward maintenance and, on the oldest, re-roofing.

How Market Bosworth's setting affects the work

Market Bosworth stands on a low hill above open farmland, and the villages around it are exposed and rural, so roofs catch the wind across the fields. The lockless Ashby Canal, opened in 1804, winds past the west side of the town and through Shackerstone and Congerstone. Cottages with oversailing eaves and steep gables shed rain well, but their eaves, verges and brick chimneys take the full force of the weather and need keeping sound.