Roofers in Tickhill
Roofline are roofers for Tickhill and the DN11 postcode, covering the Market Place, Castlegate and Sunderland Street, and out to Maltby, Harworth and Bawtry. Limestone, pantile and Welsh slate repairs across a conservation area with 121 listed buildings, and re-roofs on the streets around them.
The roofs of Tickhill
Tickhill grew up around a castle, and it shows. Roger de Busli built the first motte-and-bailey here soon after the Conquest, stone fortifications followed a 1102 siege, and between 1180 and 1192, under Henry II, the castle gained an 11-sided stone keep, with Eleanor of Aquitaine recorded as overseeing a stone bridge and chapel on the site. Parliament deliberately disabled the castle in 1648 after the Civil War, and today it survives as a private residence maintained by the Duchy of Lancaster, open to the public one afternoon a year, the second Sunday of June. The historian David Hey's own account of the period, Medieval South Yorkshire, ranks Tickhill as the second most important town in the county after Doncaster during the Middle Ages, and the town's 121 listed buildings, one Grade I, four Grade II* and 116 Grade II, are the physical evidence for that ranking today.
Two of those buildings are remarkable in their own right. St Mary's Church, a large 13th-century parish church built in Magnesian limestone soon after the castle to replace the earlier All Hallows, is Grade I listed with clasping buttresses and crocketed pinnacles in the Perpendicular style. St Leonard's Hospital, Grade II* and dated to 1470, is a rare survival: a timber-framed building on octagonal posts and moulded stone bases, with rib-vaulting and a jettied upper floor. The 1777 Buttercross in the Market Place, eight Doric columns under a saucer dome, was built to revive a weekly market that had ceased entirely within twenty years anyway.
The roofs across all this sit on the same Magnesian limestone band that Doncaster Council's own planning material says runs "from Conisbrough in the west to Tickhill in the east" of the borough, and it shows in the covering: pantile on around four in five of the town's listed buildings, Welsh and Westmorland slate reserved for the grander ones, and stone slate on the oldest 17th-century work. The River Torne, which forms the Nottinghamshire boundary nearby, has flooded the Lindrick Avenue area twice: in 2007 and 2008, leading to a £135,000 flood defence wall, and again in November 2019, when the water simply went round it.
Tickhill sits between our Maltby and Bawtry work, and we cover Wadworth, Harworth and the villages around it on the same visit.
Common roofing work in Tickhill
Every town has its own housing and its own roofing problems. These are the ones we come across most often in Tickhill.
- Pantile on the majority of Tickhill's 121 listed buildings, the town's dominant covering
- Welsh and Westmorland slate reserved for the grander Georgian and Victorian buildings
- Stone slate on the oldest surviving 17th-century work
- Magnesian limestone walling on St Mary's Church and much of the historic core
- The timber-framed, rib-vaulted roof structure of St Leonard's Hospital, dated 1470
- Red brick with pantile or slate on the later 18th and 19th-century infill
- Later estate housing on the edges of the historic core, mostly on concrete tile
Roofing services in Tickhill
Stone slate and heritage roofing
Limestone and stone slate repairs across a conservation area with 121 listed buildings.
About this serviceSlate roofing
Welsh and Westmorland slate re-slates matched to Tickhill's grander period buildings.
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Roof repairs
Leaks found and fixed on pantile, slate and stone roofs alike across the historic core.
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Leadwork and flashings
Valleys and abutments dressed properly on the town's oldest, most complex roof structures.
About this serviceChimney repairs
Stacks on Georgian and Victorian buildings repointed without losing their listed detail.
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Guttering
Rainwater goods sized properly for a town that has flooded twice on the same street since 2007.
About this serviceRoofing questions specific to Tickhill
My house is one of Tickhill's 121 listed buildings. What does that mean for a roof repair?
It almost certainly means listed building consent for anything beyond genuine like-for-like repair, and it means matching the right material: Tickhill's own listed-buildings record shows pantile as the dominant covering, with Welsh and Westmorland slate on the grander buildings and stone slate on the oldest 17th-century work. We check which category a building falls into and quote for the material Doncaster Council will actually expect, not a generic substitute.
Why does Lindrick Avenue keep flooding even though a defence wall was built?
Because the November 2019 flood went round it rather than through it. A £135,000 flood defence wall was built along Lindrick Avenue after flooding in 2007 and 2008, and it held for over a decade before the 2019 flood found a different route into the same area. It is not a roofing problem directly, but on ground that has flooded twice in recent memory, gutters, outlets and downpipes that actually clear water fast matter more here than in most of the towns we cover.
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Towns, villages and neighbourhoods around Tickhill that we work in just as often.
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