Roofers in Saltash

The old town runs down to the waterfront under the Royal Albert Bridge, which opened in 1859: late Edwardian terraces with rendered fronts and slate roofs, some walls slate hung, on streets so steep the town's own plan calls the approaches very steep. Port View, planned in the 1850s under a deed of covenant, is villas with gable-ended slate roofs, crested ridge tiles, carved bargeboards and terracotta finials, and on a roof like that the repair has to match the detail as well as the slate. The big terraces of the 1890s and 1900s, Windsor Terrace, St Stephens Road, North Road and their neighbours, have pitched slate roofs, two-storey bays and rear outriggers with their own small hipped roofs, often on ground above the road. Then the Tamar Bridge opened to traffic on 24 October 1961, the town became a place to live for people working in Plymouth, and it went from about 7,400 people to over 16,000; the newer estates round the edge of the town are what that growth looks like.

Saltash looks across the Tamar, and the waterfront and the top of the hill are the parts that take the weather. On a terrace built above the road, the back roof and the outriggers are often harder to see from the street than the front, and that is usually where a slipped slate or a split lead valley has been letting water in unnoticed.

Saltash is in Cornwall, so planning is Cornwall Council's, and Lower Fore Street, running down to the waterfront, is a conservation area where a change of roof material should be checked first. Up the river, Cargreen, Landulph and Botus Fleming sit in the Tamar Valley National Landscape, and Cargreen, Landrake and St Germans have conservation areas of their own. The steep streets in the old town mean scaffold takes planning, which we do on the free roof check.

Saltash, the waterfront, Port View, Burraton, Pill, Latchbrook, Carkeel and Trematon, with Hatt, Landulph, Cargreen, Landrake and St Germans covered from here. Torpoint, down the river, has its own page.