Ollerton · NG22
Roof Repairs In Ollerton
Old Ollerton or New Ollerton? The answer changes the repair.
Pantile, chimney and roofline repairs for the old village by the Maun and the Butterley company's colliery town
Ollerton is really two places. Old Ollerton is the small Georgian village by the River Maun, with its watermill, its coaching inn and red clay pantiles. New Ollerton is the colliery town the Butterley Company built to the east from 1923, with hundreds of brick semis, many of them under hipped roofs. Both need roof repairs in Ollerton, but the work isn't the same. In the old village it's matching clay pantiles and keeping the conservation officer happy. Out on Forest Road and the streets around St Paulinus, it's ridges, hips, eaves and chimney stacks on houses about a hundred years old. Tell us your street and we'll know which kind of job to expect.
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Who does the work
Old Ollerton, New Ollerton, one standard
New Ollerton's interwar semis and the older houses in the village need different things from a roofer. Chris has the experience for both, having started in the trade as a teenager and kept at it for more than twenty years. Being local helps too.
His team are hard workers who stay on until a roof is properly watertight. They like working for a business that cares about getting it right for the customer, not about easy hours.
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 coaching village with a pit town next door
Old Ollerton was recorded in the Domesday Book and grew up where the roads crossed the Maun. The Hop Pole, a three-storey brick coaching inn from the 18th century, still stands at the crossroads, and the watermill beside the river was grinding flour commercially until 1984. Ollerton Hall, built around 1700 and listed Grade II*, stands in the middle of the village. Nottinghamshire County Council made the old core a conservation area in 1972 and extended it in 1977. The district council's 2022 appraisal counts eleven listed buildings inside it and describes a roofscape of mostly pantiles in the colour of the local Humber clay, with some plain tiles and slate mixed in.
New Ollerton came with the coal. The Butterley Company, the Derbyshire ironmasters behind the St Pancras station roof, sank Ollerton Colliery between 1923 and 1925 and built a model village east of the river, with around 932 houses by the Second World War. Managers lived in the big semis on Savile Row, skilled men further along Forest Road, and everyone else in hipped and gabled semis around St Paulinus, the 'cathedral of the new coalfield', consecrated in 1932. The pit closed in 1994 and its site became Sherwood Energy Village. The houses are still here, and so are their original chimney stacks, which no longer have coal fires to keep them dry.
The roof repairs Ollerton needs most
Chimney Repairs
Old Ollerton's stacks are Georgian brick with lime mortar. New Ollerton's are 1920s brick built for coal fires that went out decades ago. We repoint each in the right mortar, renew the flashings, and cap pots that no longer serve a fire, so the stack can breathe.
See the service : chimney repairs in Ollerton
Fascias & Soffits
A hipped roof has eaves on all four sides, so a New Ollerton semi carries a lot of fascia for its size. When boards rot or a past cap-over hides the damage, we strip back to the rafter ends and fit new boards with ventilation built in.
See the service : fascias & soffits in Ollerton
Flat Roof Repairs
Many Ollerton houses have a later kitchen or bathroom extension at the back under a felt roof that has been patched more than once. We tell you whether another repair makes sense or whether a re-cover in EPDM or GRP is the better buy.
See the service : flat roof repairs in OllertonWe also do every other service on the menu in Ollerton, from fascias to full re-roofs.
Old pantiles, colliery hips: what Ollerton roofs need
Few villages this size have such different housing on either side of a river. A good repair here starts with knowing which side you're on.
Pantiles matched properly
Old Ollerton's clay pantiles have weathered to a particular colour. We source reclaimed or closely matched tiles so a repair doesn't stand out as a bright orange patch in the conservation area.
Hips and ridges bedded right
Hipped colliery semis have more ridge and hip line than a gabled house, and all of it was originally bedded in mortar that has now perished. We rebed in a proper mix or fit a dry system, whichever suits the roof.
Lime where lime belongs
Georgian brick and pointing need a soft lime mortar. Hard cement around an old stack or verge traps moisture and damages the brick, and we see the results of it in the old village every year.
Redundant flues dealt with
Few New Ollerton houses burn coal now. A capped, ventilated pot stops rain going straight down an unused flue and showing up as a damp patch on a chimney breast.
Permission checked before work
Old Ollerton's listed buildings and conservation area rules mean some changes need consent first. We'll tell you which category your job falls into before you're committed to anything.
"In New Ollerton we often find the damp patch on a chimney breast comes from an uncapped flue that hasn't had a fire in it for decades, not from the roof."
From the Ollerton jobs Roof Repairs Mansfield has taken on
How a Ollerton 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 start by working out which Ollerton you're in. In the old village we look at pantile laps, verges and lime-pointed stacks. In New Ollerton we look at the hip and ridge bedding, the eaves all round, and any flat-roofed extension at the back, then the loft from inside.
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
In the conservation area, broken pantiles are swapped for matched ones and verges repointed in lime. On the colliery semis we rebed or dry-fix hips and ridges, renew the stack flashing, and replace rotten fascias. Every change is photographed so you can see what's been done.
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 Ollerton.
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 Ollerton
Ollerton is surrounded by the old Dukeries estates, and two of the best-known parks are a few minutes' drive from the roundabout. The third is in the old village itself.
Ollerton Watermill
A Grade II listed brick watermill and mill house on the Maun, in the middle of the Old Ollerton conservation area, with a steep plain-tiled roof. It milled flour commercially until 1984 and was restored in the early 1990s. It's best seen as part of a short walk round the old village, past the Hop Pole and St Giles' church.
Find it on Google Maps : Ollerton Watermill
Rufford Abbey Country Park
A couple of miles south of Ollerton on the A614. The ruins of a Cistercian abbey founded in the 12th century sit at the centre of the park, joined to what is left of the country house the Savile family made out of it. Around them are a lake, woodland walks and formal gardens.
Find it on Google Maps : Rufford Abbey Country Park
Thoresby Courtyard and Gallery
On the Thoresby estate, a short drive north of Ollerton. The Grade II listed 18th-century stable block now houses independent shops, a coffee shop and a gallery showing the Pierrepont family collection alongside changing exhibitions, with parkland to walk around. Parking is free. Opening times vary, so check before visiting.
Find it on Google Maps : Thoresby Courtyard and GalleryOllerton on the map
about 17 minutes from our yard on Sandy Lane, NG18 2LT. Planning applications here go to Newark & Sherwood 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 Ollerton
The two halves of Ollerton price differently. In the old village, matched or reclaimed pantiles, lime mortar and the extra care that listed and conservation-area buildings need all add to a straightforward job, and a three-storey frontage like those near the Hop Pole needs scaffold. In New Ollerton, most repairs on the semis are ladder or tower work, and the bigger costs come from long hip and ridge lines or a full run of fascias. A rear flat roof is a separate line on our quote, so you can decide on it separately.
See the price guideRoof repair questions from Ollerton
Is Old Ollerton a conservation area, and who deals with planning?
Yes. Planning across Ollerton is handled by Newark & Sherwood District Council. The Ollerton Conservation Area was designated in 1972 by the county council and extended in 1977. The district council reviewed it in 2021 and adopted a new appraisal in March 2022, which took the modern houses and the petrol station out of the boundary. There's no Article 4 direction, but the area holds eleven listed buildings, including Ollerton Hall at Grade II*. Like-for-like pantile repairs on an unlisted house are generally fine. Anything on a listed building, or a change of roof material, should go past the council first. New Ollerton is outside the conservation area, though St Paulinus' church is listed.
Why does my New Ollerton chimney breast get damp when it rains?
Usually because the flue is open and unused. These houses were built in the twenties for coal fires, and a working fire kept the brickwork warm and dry. Now the pots are open to the sky, rain drops straight down, and the stack never dries out. Sometimes the flashing has failed as well. We check both, cap the pot with a ventilated cowl so the flue can still breathe, and repoint or re-lead where needed. It's one of the cheaper damp problems to fix properly.
Can you match the pantiles on an old Ollerton cottage?
In most cases, yes. New clay pantiles come in a range of colours, and reclaimed tiles from the region are often a closer match to roofs that have been weathering since the 1700s. For a handful of broken tiles, we'll often borrow sound ones from a hidden rear slope and put the new tiles round the back, out of sight. On a listed building we'll agree the tile with you before ordering, and with the council if consent is needed.
Are hipped roofs harder to repair than gabled ones?
Not harder, but there's more to look after. A hipped roof has a ridge plus four hip lines, all bedded in mortar on the original New Ollerton houses, and eaves running right round the building. That means more places for bedding to crack and more fascia to rot. The upside is that there are no gable verges to lose in a gale. Most jobs we do on these semis are hip and ridge rebedding or roofline renewals, and both are routine.
Book a roof survey anywhere in Ollerton
Tell us which part of Ollerton you're in and roughly what you've noticed. We'll come out, check the roof and loft, and give you a written price with photos. If it's a conservation-area job, we'll tell you what the council is likely to want before you spend anything.