Roofers in Grandpont, Oxford

Grandpont sits immediately south of Folly Bridge, on the strip of raised ground between the Thames and the Abingdon Road. It was laid out in the late nineteenth century as Oxford expanded south of the river, and the result is a compact grid of terraced streets — Marlborough Road, Whitehouse Road, Western Road and their neighbours — within easy walking distance of the city centre.

The housing is overwhelmingly late-Victorian and Edwardian terrace: modest footprints, long slate roof slopes, tall chimney stacks shared between neighbours, bay-window roofs and the valley gutters that run between adjoining properties. After well over a century, the common faults are nail sickness — slates slipping one by one as the original iron fixings rust through — along with tired lead flashings, leaking valleys and back-gutters behind the stacks.

Grandpont's low-lying position by the river also means damp is rarely a single-cause problem. We take care to identify whether water is coming through the roof, the flashings or elsewhere before quoting, so you are not paying for roof work that will not fix the leak.