Roofers across West Yorkshire
Roofline covers the whole of West Yorkshire, from the brick terraces and back-to-backs of Leeds to the stone towns of Bradford, Huddersfield and Halifax and the coalfield estates around Wakefield. Repairs, re-roofs, slate, stone slate, chimneys, gutters and flat roofs, with one number for the lot.
The roofs of West Yorkshire
West Yorkshire's roofs follow its geology. West of a line through Leeds the towns are built in Millstone Grit sandstone and the oldest roofs are stone slate: the Elland Flags around Halifax were being split for roofing in the fourteenth century and Bradford's own sandstone slates were the universal roof there until the railways brought lighter Welsh slate in the mid 1800s. Leeds and Wakefield, sitting on clay and the Coal Measures, are brick towns with grey Welsh slate roofs. Kirklees still names stone flags and UK slate as the traditional roof of the district.
This is also the only part of Britain where back-to-back houses survive in large numbers. Leeds kept building them until 1937 and has around 19,500 left, mostly in Harehills, Beeston Hill, Holbeck and Armley, and Bradford and Halifax keep their own. Around every town centre sit the inter-war and post-war council estates, from Lupset in Wakefield to Holme Wood in Bradford and Seacroft in Leeds, most of them on their first concrete tile roof.
Altitude is the other thing that matters. Queensbury above Bradford sits at around 1,100 feet, and the moors above Halifax and Huddersfield see lying snow for over a month a year. A roof in Marsden or Todmorden takes weather a roof in Garforth never sees, and we fix accordingly.
Cities and towns in West Yorkshire with their own page
Detailed pages for the places where we do most of our work, with the housing, the common problems and the services that matter there.
Roofers in Leeds
A brick city with grey slate roofs, the largest stock of back-to-backs in Britain and estates that ring the centre.
See the local pageRoofers in Bradford
A stone city with one of the oldest housing profiles in England, stone slate and Welsh slate side by side, and Saltaire's strict rules.
See the local pageRoofers in Huddersfield
Built almost entirely of local sandstone, with stone flags on the old cottages, slate on the Victorian streets and the wettest weather of the five cities.
See the local pageRoofers in Wakefield
The brick-and-coalfield city: Georgian St John's, pit-village rows in the outer towns and Lupset, once the largest council estate in Europe.
See the local pageRoofers in Halifax
The oldest housing profile of the five: well over a third of homes pre-date 1919, terraces dominate, and the town sits on the classic Yorkshire roofing stone.
See the local pageRoofers in Dewsbury
A stone-built shoddy town whose town centre conservation area is on the at-risk register, with a complete Victorian villa suburb at Northfields.
See the local pageRoofers in Keighley
An Airedale mill town where two rivers meet, the wettest of our West Yorkshire towns, with a stone slate tradition that lasted into the twentieth century.
See the local pageRoofers in Castleford
The brick outlier: a coalfield and glass town that made its own bricks, sits where the Aire meets the Calder, and only gained its first conservation area in 2026.
See the local pageRoofers in Batley
The shoddy town: tall stone mills, an ambitious civic Market Place and the millowners' villa belt at Upper Batley, with four conservation areas inside a mile.
See the local pageRoofers in Pontefract
The limestone town: a castle rather than a mill, where the magnesian limestone belt and its clay pantiles begin on the doorstep.
See the local pageCommon roofing work across West Yorkshire
- Re-slating and slate repairs on Victorian terraces in every town
- Stone slate repairs and re-laying in Calderdale, Kirklees and the Bradford hills
- Shared-roof repairs on back-to-backs, agreed with both households
- Full re-roofs on inter-war and post-war estate houses now 60 to 100 years old
- Chimney stacks on terraces, most with original flashings and tired pointing
- Dry ridge and verge on exposed hillside estates where mortar never lasts
Every town we cover in West Yorkshire
If your town is on this list, we come to you. Local pages for these towns are being added in stages.
- Brighouse
- Morley
- Pudsey
- Otley
- Ilkley
- Bingley
- Shipley
- Elland
- Holmfirth
- Mirfield
- Normanton
- Ossett
- Horsforth
- Garforth
- Wetherby
- Knottingley
- Hebden Bridge
- Todmorden
- Sowerby Bridge
Wherever you are in West Yorkshire
Leeds, Bradford, Huddersfield, Wakefield and Halifax: one team, one number, one standard of work.
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