Gutter clearing and repairs, stone-slate and slate roofs, fascias and emergency callouts in Rodley, from the canal-side cottages on Town Street and Canal Road to the newer homes built on old mill sites. Surveys are free, prices are fixed in writing, and we answer emergency callouts 7 days a week.
Rodley sits low in the Aire Valley, between the Leeds and Liverpool Canal and the river, with the wetland of Rodley Nature Reserve on the land north of Town Street. Trees along the canal, in gardens and around the reserve shed leaves, seeds and twigs that end up in gutters and outlets. Once an outlet is blocked, water spills over the front of the gutter and soaks the wall below. On a solid stone cottage that shows as damp on an inside wall.
A proper gutter clean is more than scooping out the leaves. We clear every run and outlet, flush the downpipes, and check the joints and the fall so water runs to the outlet instead of sitting in the middle. We also look at what the gutter is fixed to. Several of Rodley’s listed buildings, including 136–138 and 166–168 Town Street, have gutter brackets recorded in their Historic England list entries. If brackets have rusted or worked loose, we reset them; if a fascia has rotted behind a newer gutter, we tell you and price the repair.
You get before-and-after photos, a fixed price in writing, and a free drone survey where a gutter is too high or awkward to see from the ground. See our guttering service for the full range, including cast iron.
Rodley is about 5 miles (8km) north-west of Leeds city centre, in the LS13 postcode and the Calverley and Farsley ward. Its shape comes from the Leeds and Liverpool Canal. Historic England’s list entry for 134–138 Town Street notes that this part of Rodley was intensively developed after the canal’s first phase was built, between 1770 and 1777. Warehouses and cottages went up along the water, and later crane works and mills followed. The entry for Rodley Primary School, built in 1877 as a board school, says it was put up to serve the expanding canal-side hamlet after the engineering works and mills arrived.
Many of the canal-side mills have since been replaced with apartments and houses, so a Rodley street can mix 18th-century gritstone with recent brick and render. We work on all of it, starting with a free survey.
Leeds City Council lists Rodley as one of its conservation areas and publishes a boundary map, but no written appraisal. The map shows the boundary taking in the old canal-side core along Town Street and Canal Road, the cottages around Wesley Street, and Rodley Fold Farm. The separate Calverley Bridge Conservation Area lies just beyond, across Horsforth New Road.
Without an appraisal, the best guide to what matters on Rodley’s roofs is the national list. Historic England’s entries for the village record stone slate roofs on the Rodley Barge (182 and 184 Canal Road), Wharf Cottage (186 Canal Road), 134–138, 164 and 166–168 Town Street and 2, 4 and 6 Wesley Street (dated 1809). The 1877 school has a grey slate roof. 164 Town Street, a late 18th-century warehouse, is built directly over the stone lining of the canal.
We’ll point out at the survey anything we think may need consent. The council’s conservation area pages list every area in Leeds.
Late 18th- and early 19th-century gritstone cottages on Town Street, Canal Road and Wesley Street, two storeys with mullioned windows and stone stacks. Several are Grade II listed.
Stone slate · gable copings · gutters on bracketsRows built into the slope, such as 134–138 Town Street: two storeys to the road and four storeys plus an attic at the back, with old taking-in doors. Rear walls are tall, so access needs thought.
Stone slate · ashlar and brick stacks · tall rear elevationsApartments and houses built where canal-side mills once stood. Work is usually gutters, fascias, soffits and flat or low-pitched sections, often arranged through a managing agent.
Tiled pitched roofs · uPVC fascias · some flat roofsStone slate is the roof of old Rodley. It lasts a long time, but the fixings don’t: when pegs or nails fail, slates slide and water gets in at the gaps. Mortar at the ridge and along gable copings also breaks down. We re-hang slipped slates, re-bed ridges, and where a slope has failed, strip it and re-lay it with the original slates sorted and topped up with matching stone. On the listed buildings, that like-for-like approach is what the listing expects. Our slate and tile page has more detail.
Newer houses and apartments in Rodley usually have fascia boards behind the gutter and soffits closing off the eaves. Gutters that overflow with leaves keep soaking the boards behind them, and timber that stays wet rots. When boards rot, gutters sag and birds find a way in. We replace failing timber with new boards or a uPVC system, and clear and re-hang the gutter at the same time. See fascias and soffits.
A gutter torn loose in a storm, a slipped slate or water through a ceiling can’t wait. We take emergency callouts 7 days a week from Kirkstall (LS5), make the roof safe and dry first, then quote in writing for the proper repair. Read our emergency roof repairs page for what to do while you wait.
Runs, outlets and downpipes cleared, with joints, falls and brackets checked.
Learn More →Rotten boards replaced on newer homes and apartments near the canal.
Learn More →Slipped stone slates re-hung and slopes re-laid on canal-era cottages.
Learn More →Ridges, copings, valleys and leaks on old and new roofs alike.
Learn More →Stone and brick stacks repointed, flashings renewed, pots re-bedded.
Learn More →Storm-damaged gutters and roofs made safe, 7 days a week.
Learn More →From our Kirkstall base (LS5) we cover Rodley streets including Town Street, Canal Road, Wesley Street, Rodley Lane, Bagley Lane, Horsforth New Road, Bridge View, Oaklands Avenue, Oaklands Road, Club Lane, Keldholme Road, Eggleston Street, Nunthorpe Road, Cowley Road, Longfield Drive, Airedale Gardens, Hawthorn Drive, Hawthorn Grove, Brookfield Avenue, Knox Street, Petrie Street and the nearby streets of LS13.
See every area on our coverage map.
Call for a free survey and a written, fixed quote. Emergencies answered 7 days a week.
