Market Warsop · NG20
Roof Repairs In Market Warsop
Pantiles slipping on an old stone house in Warsop, or a damp patch under a pit-row roof?
Repairs for Warsop's limestone cottages, its interwar streets and the Staveley Company rows at Warsop Vale
Warsop has two kinds of old roof, and they fail in completely different ways. Along Church Street and the top of the High Street you'll find stone houses from the 1700s, most of them still under clay pantiles. Those tiles were never nailed the way a modern tile is, so they creep, crack and let the wind under the laps. Out at Warsop Vale it's a different story: brick rows put up around 1900 for Warsop Main, built quickly and cheaply, and now well past their first and often their second covering. Our roof repairs in Market Warsop start with working out which of those two houses you live in, then which bit of it gave up first. Then you get a written price for fixing just that.
Book a free roof survey in Market Warsop
Leave your details and we'll ring you back to arrange a survey. The visit is free, you're under no obligation once we've been, and a roof that doesn't need work gets called a roof that doesn't need work.
Fully insured
Free surveys in Market Warsop
Itemised fixed prices
about 12 minutes from base
Who does the work
Straight dealing for Warsop roofs
Between the old town on the Meden and the rows at Warsop Vale, Market Warsop has a bit of everything, shared chimneys included. Chris is a local roofer with over 20 years in the trade, which he started as a teenager, so none of it is new to him.
His team run each job efficiently and properly. If finishing means staying on well past the usual hour, they stay, because the roof has to be watertight before they go. It's that kind of business, and they're proud of it.
1,000+
Repairs carried out
10 years
Workmanship guarantee, on paper
Free
Surveys, quotes and honest bad news
No upselling
A patch that will hold gets recommended as a patch
A fair town, a mother church and a pit village down the lane
The Domesday Book calls it Wareshope. For centuries the important end was Church Warsop, around St Peter and St Paul's, a church with 11th-century origins that is now Grade I listed. The settlement on the other side of the Meden grew once it won a Saturday market and two annual fairs, which is how it came to be called Warsop Fair Town and, later, Market Warsop. Plenty of that era still stands. Church Street has several early 18th-century stone houses on the listed buildings register, one with its old malthouse attached, and the watermill and its bridge date from 1767. Market Warsop and Church Warsop each have their own conservation area.
Then came coal. The Staveley Coal and Iron Company started sinking Warsop Main in the early 1890s and had a whole village built at Warsop Vale: the first 160 houses went up in 1900 at about £40 each, in terraces of eight, ten and twelve laid out on three sides of a square with the pit making the fourth side. The pit shut in August 1989. Parts of Hewett Street and King Street were cleared in the early 2000s, but plenty of the original rows are still lived in. A roof built to a coal company's budget a century and a quarter ago shows it in the battens and the bedding mortar.
The roof repairs Market Warsop needs most
Roof Leak Repairs
On the stone cottages, water usually gets in where pantiles have crept apart or the mortar under the verge has fallen out. At Warsop Vale it tends to be a perished felt or a gap at the party wall. We track it from inside the loft first.
See the service : roof leak repairs in Market Warsop
Chimney Repairs
Warsop's older stacks are stone or soft brick with lime mortar, and the pit rows share stacks across two or three houses. Repointing gets done in a mortar that suits the stack, and lead flashings are dressed back properly rather than smeared over with sealant.
See the service : chimney repairs in Market Warsop
Guttering
Old cast iron along Church Street, thin uPVC added to the Vale rows later, and long shared runs on the terraces that only drain if every joint does. One sagging bracket can soak a gable wall, so we check the whole run, not just the drip.
See the service : guttering in Market WarsopWe also do every other service on the menu in Market Warsop, from fascias to full re-roofs.
What a Warsop roof asks of whoever climbs it
Warsop has listed stone cottages and colliery terraces within a mile of each other. A roofer who treats them the same will get one of them wrong.
Pantiles matched, not swapped
A run of concrete tiles in the middle of a clay pantile roof stands out from the street, and in a conservation area it can land you in trouble. We source reclaimed or matching clay so the repair reads as part of the roof.
Conservation boundaries checked
Market Warsop and Church Warsop are separate conservation areas, and their edges don't always run where people expect. We confirm whether your address falls inside one before we write the quote.
Lime where lime belongs
Hard cement pointing on soft stone traps damp and spalls the face. On the older houses we use a lime-based mix for ridges, verges and stacks, so the roof can breathe the way it was built to.
Vale rows treated as a terrace
Warsop Vale's houses share walls, stacks and gutter runs. We look at how your neighbour's side is behaving too, because a failed flashing next door is often what's wetting your bedroom.
A straight answer on patching
Some Vale roofs have been patched so many times there's little original left to tie into. If another repair won't last, we'll tell you so and price the re-cover alongside it, so you can compare.
"On Warsop's older stone houses, the leak we get called out for usually comes from a verge or a chimney, and the pantiles in the middle of the slope are often sound enough to stay."
From the Market Warsop jobs Roof Repairs Mansfield has taken on
How a Market Warsop roof repair runs
First contact
Phone, or use the form. Tell us roughly where the problem is and when it shows up. A rough description is all we need at this stage.
Survey, roof and loft
We look from the street first to see what the roof is made of, then go into the loft. On a pantile roof we look for daylight at the laps and wet battens. On a Vale terrace we look at the party wall line and the condition of the felt.
The findings, with photos
We show you photos of what we found and explain what failed first and what follows if it's left. Then we say whether it's urgent.
A price that holds
One written figure, broken into lines. Access costs are listed separately, so you can tell how much of the price is scaffolding.
Doing the work
Pantiles lifted, reset and pegged or clipped, and verges rebedded in lime mortar. On the brick rows that usually means new battens and breathable membrane where the old felt has rotted. Anything inside a conservation area is repaired like for like.
Handover
You get photos of the finished repair, the debris goes away with us, and the 10 year written guarantee is yours before the van leaves Market Warsop.
Ten years, in writing, before we leave the drive
Every roofer in Nottinghamshire will tell you their work is guaranteed. Ask to see the paper and the conversation often changes. Ours doesn't: work booked through Roof Repairs Mansfield carries a 10 year workmanship guarantee as a physical document, dated, signed and handed over with the completion photos - not a line in an email you'll never find again. Materials sit on top of that with their manufacturers' own cover, which differs product to product, so your paperwork names the cover that actually applies to your job.
A guarantee that long only makes commercial sense if repairs are done in a way that doesn't invite a return visit. Around Mansfield that means respecting what the housing actually is: coverings and fixings from the colliery era that fail as systems, not as single tiles, and mortar that has been quietly powdering since the pits shut. So failed material gets stripped back to something sound before new goes on, mortar gets matched to the age of the brick, and anything we can't make right on the day gets said out loud rather than covered over.
The blunt version: if water we were paid to stop finds its way back through our work inside 10 years, we return and put it right at our own cost. That promise has to be cheap to honour - and it is, because of how the work gets done the first time.
10 yrs
Written workmanship cover
1,000+
Repairs carried out
Insured
Public liability held
Named
Manufacturer cover per job
What to do in Market Warsop
Most of what's worth seeing in Warsop is along the River Meden, and you can walk all three of these in an afternoon.
The Carrs Local Nature Reserve
The open land between Market Warsop and Church Warsop was once water meadow and common. It became a Local Nature Reserve in 2005. There's a mill pool for fishing, play areas and a bowling green, and the Meden runs through it clear enough that brown trout can be seen in it. More than a hundred bird species have been recorded here.
Find it on Google Maps : The Carrs Local Nature Reserve
St Peter and St Paul's Church, Church Warsop
One of only three Grade I listed buildings in Mansfield district, with origins in the 11th century. The Victorians restored it and re-roofed it in 1878. The old hall in the churchyard, now the parish centre, is Grade II* and dates from the 14th century or earlier. It's a short walk from the Carrs.
Find it on Google Maps : St Peter and St Paul's Church, Church Warsop
Hills and Holes
A limestone quarry between Market Warsop, Sookholme and Warsop Vale that was left alone long enough to go back to grassland and scrub. It's now a Site of Special Scientific Interest for its lime-loving grassland, with the Meden running through it. The easiest way in is from the end of Stonebridge Road or along Sookholme Lane.
Find it on Google Maps : Hills and HolesMarket Warsop on the map
about 12 minutes from our yard on Sandy Lane, NG18 2LT. Planning applications here go to Mansfield District Council.
Word from around the town
What homeowners across the Mansfield patch made of the work, in their own words.
"The back bedroom ceiling had a mark that came and went for two years and I'd stopped even noticing it. When Babet hit it turned into a proper leak overnight. They came out two days later, found a split flashing round the chimney - nowhere near where the stain was - and had it done in a morning. Showed me photos of the fault before and after. The quote and the invoice were the same number, which I'm told is rarer than it should be."
"Ours is one of the old colliery houses and the ridge had been shedding bits of mortar onto the path for months. I expected to be told we needed a new roof - the bloke next door had been quoted for exactly that by someone else. Instead they rebedded the ridge, refixed four tiles and told me the rest of the roof was fine for years yet. Charged a fraction of what I'd braced myself for."
"Water was streaming down the front of the house whenever it rained hard and I assumed the worst about the roof. Turned out the gutter had lost its fall and was tipping everything over the edge in one spot. They reset the brackets, sorted a joint, checked the gully at the bottom and were gone within a couple of hours. Also pointed out a slate that wants watching next year rather than fixing now - appreciated that."
"Bought a 1900s terrace near the town centre and the survey flagged the chimney. Two other firms quoted to take it down entirely. These lads went up, told me the stack itself was sound and it just needed repointing with the right mortar, new flaunching and a cap on the dead flue. Three years on the chimney breast is bone dry. Kept the chimney, saved about two grand."
"The extension roof had ponded for years and every couple of winters someone would patch it and it would come back. They were the first to explain the actual problem - no fall on the deck - and quoted to sort that rather than just laying another layer of felt over it. New rubber roof, water actually runs off it now. You get told the truth, which is worth paying for on its own."
Been a customer?
A short review is the most useful thing you can give a local firm - it tells the next household in Mansfield with a dripping ceiling who they can trust with it.
The rest of our patch
Every town and village below gets the same free survey and ten year guarantee, from Warsop down to Kirkby and from Shirebrook across to Ollerton.
Roof repair prices in Market Warsop
In Warsop, the material on the roof makes the biggest difference to the price. Clay pantiles on a listed or conservation-area cottage cost more per tile than concrete, and reclaimed ones take time to track down. The labour is slower too, because each one gets reset by hand. The Warsop Vale rows are cheaper per square metre but rarely need just one fix, since battens, felt and ridge have usually worn out together. Access matters on Church Street, where houses sit tight to the pavement and a scaffold may need a licence from the highways authority. Your quote shows every one of those as its own line.
See the price guideRoof repair questions from Market Warsop
Do I need planning permission for roof work in Market Warsop's conservation area?
Planning here goes through Mansfield District Council. Repairing a roof like for like, using the same tiles, the same ridge and the same details, generally doesn't need permission, even inside the Market Warsop or Church Warsop conservation areas. It's different if you change how the roof looks, for example swapping clay pantiles for concrete tiles, adding rooflights on a slope that faces the street, or taking down a chimney. Then it's worth checking with the council first. Listed buildings, including several on Church Street and the High Street, need listed building consent for anything that alters their character, and that applies to the roof as well.
Why do the pantiles on my Warsop cottage keep slipping?
Old pantiles were usually hung on their nibs, with few or no nails, and bedded at the edges in lime mortar. As the timber battens dry out and shrink and the mortar crumbles, the tiles gradually creep down the slope and the gaps at the laps open up. That's why one slipped tile is rarely on its own. We reset the affected area on sound battens, fix the tiles with modern clips where that's appropriate, and point the verges in lime so the roof keeps its look.
Are the Warsop Vale terraces worth repairing, or is it time for a new roof?
It depends how much original roof is still there. Some Vale houses were re-covered decades ago and need only a ridge or a flashing. Others still have the 1900 battens under layers of patching, and every repair pulls at something rotten. We go into the loft, check the timbers and the felt, then give you two prices: the repair, and the re-cover. Because the houses share walls, it's often worth asking the neighbours too, since doing the run together cuts the scaffold cost for everyone.
How quickly can you get out to Market Warsop?
Warsop is about twelve minutes up the A60 from our yard, so a survey is normally booked within the week. If water is actively coming through a ceiling, ring rather than filling in the form. We'll try to get someone out the same day to make it watertight, and come back for the proper repair once the price is agreed. For a slipped tile on a dry week, there's no need to panic.
Get a Warsop roofer who knows a pantile from a pit row
Tell us which part of Warsop you're in and roughly where the problem is. We'll come out, look at it from the loft and the street, and give you a written figure. If it only needs a few tiles reset, that's what we'll quote for.