Chimney repairs, flat and felt roofs, fascias and slate repairs across Pudsey, including the Pudsey and Fulneck conservation areas. Free survey, fixed price in writing, 10-year workmanship guarantee on major work.
Pudsey grew from a cluster of separate settlements — Lowtown, Chapeltown, Fartown and The Green — that merged during the 19th-century boom in the woollen and worsted trades. Leeds City Council’s appraisal notes that the town sits on high ground rising to 184 m above sea level, with the land falling steeply to the west, south and east towards the Tyersal and Pudsey Becks. Its older buildings are mostly local sandstone and millstone grit, typically two or three storeys with roof pitches of roughly 35–45°. Alongside them sit the flats and houses that replaced stone cottages in the 1950s and 1960s redevelopment of the old core. That mix means one street can need heavy stone slate, the next Welsh slate, and the one behind it a felt or rubber flat roof. We cover all of it, starting with a free survey and a fixed price in writing.
Stone-built terraces and back-to-backs like Pudsey’s usually have masonry stacks on the ridge or gable, and on a terrace a single stack often serves more than one house. On high, open ground stacks take the weather from every side, and the faults to look for are the same on most of them: open or crumbling mortar joints, lead flashing that has lifted or split where the stack meets the roof, cracked flaunching around the pots, and stacks that have started to lean.
As a guide, repointing starts from £350, lead flashing from £450, a partial rebuild from £600 and a full rebuild from £1,500, with scaffolding from £400. The final price depends on access and the condition of the stack, 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 in more detail.
Pudsey has two conservation areas. The Pudsey Conservation Area was designated on 5 June 1985, and its boundary was reviewed and extended in 2009, with the appraisal approved on 9 April 2009. It covers five character areas: the town centre, Eastern Lowtown, Pudsey Park and Pudsey Cemetery, Chapeltown, and the late 19th- and early 20th-century terraces south of the park. The Fulneck Conservation Area covers the Moravian settlement on the south side of the town; the council publishes a boundary map for it.
The council’s Pudsey conservation area appraisal says the dominant roof materials are heavy stone slate and Welsh slate, with some pantile, and lists “poor choice of materials for the replacement of historic features” among its concerns. It specifically names replacing roof coverings with inappropriate materials as harmful. For a roof, that means:
We’ll flag at the survey anything we think may need permission. For your own property, check Leeds City Council’s conservation area pages, which hold the maps and appraisals.
The appraisal picks out terraced and back-to-back housing as typical of Pudsey, including back-to-backs on Parkfield Mount and through houses and back-to-backs around Kent Road and Crimbles Road. Rows are mostly two storeys with eaves running parallel to the street.
Stone slate or Welsh slate · stone stacksNineteenth-century villas on the west side of Crawshaw Road, detached houses along Swinnow Road and the larger 1920 terraces at Radcliffe Gardens. Bigger roofs, more stacks and more ornate detailing, which is worth keeping when repairs are done.
Slate · tall stone stacks · decorative ridgesFlats and houses from the 1950s–60s redevelopment of the old core, plus the rear extensions, dormers and garages behind older homes. These are where felt, rubber and GRP flat roofs turn up.
Felt, EPDM or GRP flat roofs · timber or uPVC fasciasFelt and flat roofs. Old mineral felt on a rear extension or garage usually fails at the edges, at the upstand where it meets the house wall, or where water has pooled. Sometimes a patch or new edge detail is enough; if the deck underneath has gone soft, it needs stripping and re-covering in felt, EPDM rubber or GRP. See flat roofing.
Fascias and soffits. Rotten timber fascias let gutters sag and can let birds and water into the eaves. We replace them, either in timber to match or in uPVC, and refit the gutters at the right fall. Inside the conservation area, the appraisal’s concern about inappropriate replacement materials is worth bearing in mind on a front elevation. See fascias and soffits.
Conservatory roofs. To be clear, we don’t install conservatories or fit replacement conservatory roof systems. Where a conservatory leaks at the joint with the house — the lead or flashing along the wall, or the flat-roof or gutter section next to it — that is roof repair work we can survey and quote for.
Repointing sandstone stacks, new lead flashing, flaunching and rebuilds, including shared terrace stacks.
Learn More →Re-covering felt roofs on extensions and garages in felt, EPDM rubber or GRP.
Learn More →Replacing rotten fascias and soffits in timber or uPVC, with gutters refitted.
Learn More →Like-for-like slate and stone slate repairs, suited to the conservation areas.
Learn More →Slipped slates, ridge and valley leaks, and leaks where a conservatory meets the house wall.
Learn More →Callouts 7 days a week to make a storm-damaged or leaking roof safe.
Learn More →We cover Pudsey and Fulneck across LS28, from our base in Kirkstall (LS5), including Church Lane, Robin Lane, Lowtown, Chapeltown, Lidget Hill, Richardshaw Lane, Radcliffe Lane, South Parade, New Street, Crawshaw Road, Glebe Street, Parkfield Mount, Kent Road, Crimbles Road, Swinnow Road, Lane End, Fulneck and the surrounding streets.
See every area on our coverage map.
Free survey, fixed price in writing, 10-year workmanship guarantee on major work.
