Pleasley · NG19
Roof Repairs In Pleasley
Which side of the Meden is your Pleasley roof on?
Roof, chimney and roofline repairs across a village split between Derbyshire and Nottinghamshire
Pleasley has a county boundary running through it, and that matters more to a roofer than you'd think. The River Meden divides Derbyshire from Nottinghamshire here. Pleasley village and Upper Pleasley sit on the Derbyshire side, under Bolsover District Council. Pleasley Hill, along the A617 towards Mansfield, is in Nottinghamshire and comes under Mansfield District Council. Down in the wooded vale, the Nottinghamshire bank has the only Article 4 direction in Mansfield district's conservation areas. Most roof repairs in Pleasley never need anyone's permission. But if you're changing how a roof looks, the rules depend on which side of the river you live. We'll tell you which council applies and whether it affects your job before we give you a price.
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Fully insured
Free surveys in Pleasley
Itemised fixed prices
about 10 minutes from base
Who does the work
Careful work for a careful village
Pleasley straddles a county boundary, and down in the vale the conservation rules decide which materials are allowed. That needs local knowledge, which Chris has, along with over 20 years in roofing since his teenage years.
Jobs here are run efficiently and properly, the same as everywhere else. Chris and his team don't leave a roof until it's watertight, and they'd sooner work a long day than walk away from one that isn't.
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
Cotton, coal and a river on the county line
Pleasley is really four places sharing one name. The old village sits lowest in the valley, around the mill pond and St Michael's Church, which is listed Grade II* and largely thirteenth-century. Upper Pleasley grew up around Terrace Lane to house colliery workers. Pleasley Hill is on the Nottinghamshire side along the main road, and Pleasley Vale is the deep, wooded limestone gorge the Meden has cut to the east. William Hollins and Co. had water-powered cotton mills running there by 1785. From the 1890s those mills made Viyella, a cotton and wool blend, and production continued until 1987. Bolsover District Council bought the buildings in 1992, and they now form a business park.
Coal arrived a century after the cotton. The Stanton Ironworks Company leased the mineral rights in 1872, and Pleasley Colliery was winding coal by the late 1870s. It closed in 1983, but its engine house, headstocks and one tall chimney survive as a listed and scheduled monument. That's why the housing here is so mixed. There are stone cottages in the old village, colliery rows in Upper Pleasley and council-built semis on Pleasley Hill, and many of those have since been bought by their tenants. The roofs range from slate and clay to concrete tile, and the repairs range just as widely. A council semi might need a ridge rebedded and new fascias. A cottage in the vale might need lead and lime done the old way.
The roof repairs Pleasley needs most
Chimney Repairs
The older Pleasley houses still have the stacks they were built with, many of them shared and unused for years. We rebuild, repoint, reflash or cap them. Where a stack faces the road inside the vale's Article 4 area, we'll check whether the council needs to be involved first.
See the service : chimney repairs in Pleasley
Emergency Roof Repairs
Pleasley Vale and the streets above it are a quick drive from our Mansfield base. If water is coming in, we'll make the roof watertight the same day where it's safe to do so, and come back to do the full repair properly.
See the service : emergency roof repairs in Pleasley
Fascias & Soffits
Many ex-council homes on Pleasley Hill still have their original timber roofline or a cheap capping job from the 1990s. We strip back to sound timber, fit vented uPVC boards and new guttering, and leave the rafter ends in good order.
See the service : fascias & soffits in PleasleyWe also do every other service on the menu in Pleasley, from fascias to full re-roofs.
Getting a Pleasley roof repair right on both sides of the river
In most places the only question is what's wrong with the roof. In Pleasley, you also need to know which county you're in and whether the vale's extra controls apply.
Right council every time
Bolsover District Council for the village and Upper Pleasley, Mansfield District Council for Pleasley Hill and the Nottinghamshire bank. We check your address against the boundary before we suggest anything that might need approval.
Article 4 flagged early
In Mansfield's part of Pleasley Park and Vale, changes to a roof slope facing a road, the river or open space need planning permission. We'll tell you at the survey if your job falls into that category.
Old stone treated gently
Cottages in the village and the vale need lime mortar and matching materials. Hard cement and mismatched tiles do more harm on old stone than the original fault ever did.
Ex-council roofs priced fairly
Many Pleasley Hill semis share a roof line with a neighbour whose half is in a different state. We price your half and finish the join cleanly, whatever has been done next door.
Colliery rows read properly
Upper Pleasley's pit-era terraces have had a century of settling over old workings. We tell the difference between historic movement and fresh damage, and point out anything that needs a structural look first.
"The first thing we get asked on a Pleasley job is usually which council deals with the house, and quite often the answer isn't the one the owner expected."
From the Pleasley jobs Roof Repairs Mansfield has taken on
How a Pleasley 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
Before we look at the roof, we work out which county and which council the address falls under, and whether it's inside either conservation area. Then we check the stacks, ridges and roofline from outside and look at the timbers and any staining from the loft.
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 vale and the old village, we use lime mortar, natural materials and lead dressed to the original detail. On Pleasley Hill and in Upper Pleasley, the work is usually ridge rebedding, replacement tiles, roofline renewal or a chimney tidy-up, done with the same care and to the same written guarantee.
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 Pleasley.
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 Pleasley
Pleasley's past is mills and mining, and plenty of both is still there to walk around and explore.
Pleasley Pit
The engine house was built in 1873, and the colliery buildings are listed Grade II and a scheduled monument. Inside are two winding engines, one from the 1900s and one from the 1920s, both restored and now driven by electricity. A volunteer trust runs a museum and café on site, and the engines are run on regular event days.
Find it on Google Maps : Pleasley Pit
Pleasley Pit Country Park
When the pit closed, its spoil tips were turned into a nature reserve, with ponds, grassland and woodland walks around the preserved headstocks. The former railway lines nearby now form the Pleasley Trails, a network of traffic-free routes for walking and cycling. The Land Trust owns the site, and the top of the old pit tip gives wide views across the surrounding countryside.
Find it on Google Maps : Pleasley Pit Country Park
Pleasley Vale
A steep wooded valley where the River Meden cuts through the limestone, with the old Hollins cotton mills, their ponds and a pair of listed Tudor-style lodges at the entrance. Footpaths follow the river through the woods. The vale is a conservation area on both sides of the county line.
Find it on Google Maps : Pleasley ValePleasley on the map
about 10 minutes from our yard on Sandy Lane, NG18 2LT. Planning applications here go to Bolsover 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 Pleasley
Pleasley covers a wide spread of prices because the housing is so mixed. A ridge rebed or a few replacement tiles on a Pleasley Hill semi sits at the lower end of our guide bands. Chimney and lime work on an old stone house in the village costs more, partly because of the materials and partly because the work is slower. Inside the vale's Article 4 area, a planning application adds time and a fee if your job counts as a change rather than a repair. That's flagged at the survey, not after the price has been agreed. Access and scaffold always appear as a separate line.
See the price guideRoof repair questions from Pleasley
Which council handles planning for roof work in Pleasley?
It depends which side of the River Meden you're on. Pleasley village and Upper Pleasley are in Derbyshire, under Bolsover District Council, which also covers the village's own conservation area and the Derbyshire side of Pleasley Park and Vale. Pleasley Hill and the Nottinghamshire bank come under Mansfield District Council. Mansfield's part of the Pleasley Park and Vale conservation area has an Article 4 direction, the only one among the district's conservation areas. It removes permitted development for alterations to a house or its roof on any elevation or slope facing a road, waterway or open space. Like-for-like repairs need no application on either side.
Is Pleasley Hill in Derbyshire or Nottinghamshire?
Nottinghamshire. Pleasley Hill sits on the Mansfield side of the River Meden along the A617, so it comes under Mansfield District Council and Nottinghamshire County Council. The village itself, across the river, is Derbyshire. The shared name and the NG19 postcodes catch out a lot of people, including some tradespeople. For an ordinary repair it makes no difference. If you're changing your roof or need building control, it decides which council you deal with.
What does the Article 4 direction in Pleasley Vale mean for my roof?
It only applies to homes inside Mansfield District Council's part of the Pleasley Park and Vale conservation area. There, changes that would normally be permitted development, such as rooflights, a change of roof material or other alterations to a roof slope facing a road, the river or open space, need planning permission first. Repairs that keep the roof looking exactly the same aren't development, so they don't need permission. If your job is close to the line, we'll say so and suggest a quick check with the council.
Can you repair an old stone roof or chimney in Pleasley village?
Yes. The older houses in the village and the vale were built in stone, often bedded in lime, and they need repairs in the same materials. We repoint stacks in lime, reuse sound tiles and slates where we can, and dress new lead to the old details. In the conservation areas, that approach is what keeps a repair like for like and avoids an application.
Get a Pleasley roofer who knows where the county line runs
Village, Pleasley Hill or down in the vale, the survey costs nothing. You'll get photos of the fault and a fixed price, and we'll tell you which council applies if your job ever needs one. If the honest answer is that the roof can wait another year, that's what you'll hear.