Roofers · Colton LS15
Roofers in Colton
Roofing for Colton’s Georgian village cottages and the estate houses around them: stone slate and slate repairs, chimneys, re-roofs and gutters. Free survey, fixed price in writing, emergency callouts 7 days.
Roofing for Colton’s Georgian village cottages and the estate houses around them: stone slate and slate repairs, chimneys, re-roofs and gutters. Free survey, fixed price in writing, emergency callouts 7 days.
Colton appears in the Domesday Book of 1086 as Coletun, “Cola’s estate”. It sits between Cross Gates, Halton, Whitkirk and Austhorpe, with Temple Newsam immediately to the south; further south again, the earthworks of the shrunken medieval village of Colton are a scheduled monument. The old village survives along Park Road, Meynell Road, School Lane and Colton Road East, where Historic England lists a run of late 18th- and early 19th-century brick cottages and farmhouses. Beech House on Park Road, for example, was built as a woodman’s, and later gardener’s, house for the Temple Newsam estate.
Around that core is newer housing laid out in cul-de-sacs linked by footpaths, with the cricket club, tennis courts and bowling green at its centre. So Colton roofing jobs split two ways: careful, like-for-like work on old stone slate, and practical repairs or re-roofs on estate homes. Both start with a free survey and a fixed written price.
Leeds City Council designated the Colton Conservation Area on 16 July 1982. Its own dataset puts it at about 24.5 hectares, centred on the old village. Unlike neighbouring Whitkirk, Colton has no published appraisal; the council provides a boundary map only. The best record of how the old roofs were built is therefore the Historic England list entries. Most describe brick walls under stone slate, often a low-pitched stone slate roof: Colton Cottage on School Lane, Princess Farmhouse and Holly Tree Farmhouse on Meynell Road, and most of the listed houses on Park Road. Others are slate, such as New Row on Colton Road East, an early 19th-century terrace of eight with eight brick ridge stacks, and 16 and 18 Meynell Road, which have stone gable copings.
We note anything likely to need consent in the written quote. Boundary maps for every Leeds conservation area are on the council’s conservation area pages.
Stone slates are thick, heavy and laid in courses that get smaller towards the ridge. On a shallow pitch like the ones described in Colton’s listings, water runs off slowly, so a single slipped or cracked slate can let in more rain than you might expect. Common faults are slates sliding as their fixings corrode, mortar bedding at the ridge and verges breaking up, and lead at the stacks and abutments splitting with age.
Where the roof is broadly sound, we lift and re-fix the failed slates, rebed ridges and verges, and replace lead. Sound old slates are kept and reused. If the whole roof needs stripping, it is re-laid in stone slate, which on a listed house is a consent matter. Our slate and tile roofing page covers the approach.
Brick cottages on Park Road, Meynell Road, School Lane and Colton Road East, many Grade II listed. Low roof pitches and brick stacks at the gables or on the ridge.
Low-pitched stone slate · brick stacksA listed early 19th-century terrace of eight on Colton Road East, with a central carriage arch. Work on one house affects the look of the whole row.
Slate · eight brick ridge stacksFormer farmhouses such as Park Farmhouse, mid-18th century with a hipped roof, and Park Road Farmhouse in dressed stone. Bigger roofs with outbuildings attached.
Stone slate · hips & lower wingsThe later cul-de-sac housing around the cricket club. Typical work is ridge and verge repairs, fascias, gutters and full re-roofs.
Concrete or clay tile · uPVC eavesColton’s old stacks are brick, set over the gable ends or on the ridge, and their weak points are worn joints, cracked flaunching and tired lead. Repointing in a mortar that suits old brick, rather than hard cement, helps the stack last. Guide prices start at £350 for repointing and £450 for new lead flashing; a partial rebuild starts at £600, a full rebuild at £1,500, and scaffolding at £400. Your final figure depends on access and condition and is fixed in writing after a free survey. Our chimney repair costs guide explains what moves the price, and the chimney repairs page covers the work.
On the estate homes, sagging gutters and rotten fascia boards are often the first sign of trouble at the eaves; we replace them in uPVC and clear or renew downpipes. See guttering and fascias and soffits.
When a storm lifts slates or tiles, we take emergency callouts 7 days a week, make the roof watertight, and then quote in writing for the permanent repair. On a stone slate roof we keep any fallen slates that can be reused. More on emergency roof repairs.
Like-for-like stone slate and slate repairs on the listed cottages of the old village.
Learn More →Slipped slates, ridges, verges and leaks on village and estate roofs.
Learn More →Full re-roofs on Colton’s estate homes when tiles and battens are worn out.
Learn More →Repointing, flaunching and lead on gable and ridge stacks.
Learn More →Gutters and downpipes cleared, realigned or replaced.
Learn More →Storm damage made safe 7 days a week, with reusable slates kept.
Learn More →From our base in Kirkstall (LS5) we cover Colton streets including Park Road, Meynell Road, School Lane, Colton Road East, Colton Road and the surrounding streets of LS15.
See every area on our coverage map.
Free survey, fixed written quote and like-for-like repairs on period roofs.
