Roofers in Linton
Roof work in Linton, a conservation-area village in the south Herefordshire countryside, where a Grade I church and a listed cross set the standard for what is changed.
Linton at a glance
- Distance
- 23.6 road miles north-west of Stroud
- Council
- Herefordshire Council
- Conservation area
- Linton
- Listed landmark
- St Mary's, the highest grade
Linton's roofs around St Mary's and its listed cross
Linton is a village in southern Herefordshire, about 3 miles east of Ross-on-Wye. Its setting is open south Herefordshire countryside, and the village itself is designated: Linton has its own conservation area, designated and administered by Herefordshire Council.
St Mary's is a late 13th-century church with 12th-century remains, a late 14th-century west tower carrying a stone spire, walls of sandstone rubble and a restoration of 1875, and it holds the top listing grade, Grade I. About 75 metres south of the church a cross is listed separately at Grade II. Between them these two entries make the ground around the church a place where nothing changes casually.
That is the useful fact for anyone with a roof to look after. A conservation area does not forbid work. It asks that what you do keeps the character of the place, and it can remove rights that would otherwise let you alter a house without an application. Roofs are one of the most visible parts of any house, so they are the part the council looks at most closely.
Our job is to find out the position before a scaffold goes up. We look at what covers your roof now, whether the house is itself listed, and whether the plan you have in mind is a like-for-like repair or a change. Thirteen buildings and structures in the Linton conservation area are listed, with St Mary's the only one at Grade I, so a listed house here is far from unusual.
Flint and brick cottage with a clay tile roof beside a road 
Wooded hillside lined with rows of stone houses and slate roofs
Chapter 01
A Grade I church, a listed cross and the Linton conservation area
Three layers of protection overlap in the middle of the village, and each one asks a different question of a roof.
Chapter 01In this chapter
Start with the layers. St Mary's is Grade I, and the cross to its south is Grade II. Around both, the Linton conservation area covers the settlement. A conservation area protects the character of an area as a whole, while a listing protects an individual building or structure. A house can be in one, both or neither, and the answer decides what a roof job needs.
Take a house inside the conservation area without a listing of its own. Putting back what is there, so that the building looks unchanged, is not normally development, which is why planning permission is rarely the issue for that kind of repair. The caution is that the council can withdraw some rights through an Article 4 direction, and whether one covers a particular Linton address is a question for Herefordshire Council's planning team, and we encourage a short call before the survey, not after the quote.
What counts as a visible change
Visible does not just mean a new material. A different tile colour, a ridge of another profile, a rooflight on the front slope or a flue terminal in a new place can each change how a roof reads from the street. By the same logic, a sound roof that is repaired well and left looking as it did is the least contentious route there is.
Listed neighbours
A listed cross or church makes the buildings around it matter more, but it does not make them listed. The test for your house is its own entry on the list. If you are unsure, the council's conservation team can say whether a building, or a structure in its grounds, is covered, and a wall or outbuilding in the grounds of a listed house may share its protection, and Stroud District Council advises checking such structures with its conservation department. The same habit pays off in Herefordshire.
When the answer is that consent is needed, we help you assemble what the council asks for: photographs of the existing roof, a note of the materials proposed, and the drawings if the change is anything more than a repair. Our roof repairs page explains what the like-for-like option looks like in practice.
Roof windows and dormers
A loft room is the commonest reason owners ask about a visible change. Roof windows and dormers are treated differently from one another, and dormers are not permitted development on land inside a conservation area, so one would need a full application. We would rather you heard that before drawing anything up.
In a conservation area, the least contentious roof is one that is repaired well and looks the same.
- 13th centuryage of St Mary's church, listed Grade I
- 75 mdistance south of the church to the separately listed cross
- Grade IIlisting of the cross
Chapter 02
Lanes, gates and long drives in the south Herefordshire countryside
Out of the village centre, getting people and materials to a roof is half the planning.
Chapter 02In this chapter
Linton sits in the south Herefordshire countryside, and countryside access is a different problem from a terraced street. Houses are often set back from the road behind a gate, at the end of a track or down a long drive. That is pleasant to live with and a puzzle to deliver to.
In this chapter
At the survey we walk the route that a lorry and a scaffold crew would take. We look at the width of the gate, the surface of the drive, any overhanging branches, and the ground where a scaffold tower or mobile lift might stand. A drive that is firm in summer can be soft after rain, so we think about timing as well as layout. If a lorry cannot reach the house, materials are brought in smaller loads or moved by hand, and the time that takes is shown on the quote as labour, not left to chance.
Trees and the roof beneath them
Wherever a roof sits under or beside trees, it collects leaf fall in the gutters and, in shade, moss on the covering. Moss holds moisture against tiles and slates and is a common reason for a roof to be cleaned. Our roof cleaning and moss removal page explains the methods, including manual scraping, which MyBuilder's 2026 guide puts at £5 to £10 per square metre, and why pressure washing can damage delicate tiles.
Waste and materials on a long drive
On a rural plot we plan where the skip stands, and how the old covering gets to it. Tiles and slates leave in contained loads, and nothing is left lying in a field margin or against a hedge. Timber and lead are bought and measured ahead of the strip, which keeps the roof uncovered for as little time as we can manage.
If you are a landlord or live elsewhere and rely on photographs to judge the job, we send pictures of the roof before work, during it where something unexpected turns up, and when it is finished.
Outbuildings and garages
Country plots tend to come with more roofs than the house: a garage, a store, a lean-to against a barn wall. They are priced as their own items. A flat garage roof is laid to a fall so rainwater leaves it, with the design fall in BS 6229 set at 1:40 for a finished 1:80, and MyBuilder's 2026 garage guide gives single flat garage roofs at £700 to £1,000 and pitched ones at £2,500 to £4,500. Outbuildings are often where a quick, sound repair saves the most money.
Chapter 03
Reading a written quote for a Linton roof, 23.6 road miles from Stroud
A well-built quote lets you hold two offers side by side and match them on scope.
Chapter 03In this chapter
Linton is 23.6 road miles north-west of Stroud, comfortably inside our 30-mile range. The route is part of the planning, but the quote is where the real information lies, so it is worth knowing what a good one contains.
A written quote that states its scope is one you can compare with another. Scaffold comes first, because without safe access nothing else can start. Then the strip, which means taking off the old covering, battens and underlay. Then the materials: new battens, a breathable or other underlay as the roof needs, the covering itself, the lead flashings, the ridge and hip fixings. Then labour, waste disposal and making good around the edges. VAT is stated on the quote, because roofing work is normally charged at the standard rate.
National figures for orientation
For a sense of scale, MyBuilder's new roof cost guide (updated August 2026) gives a typical full re-roof at £5,000 to £12,000: £5,000 to £8,000 for a gable roof and £8,000 to £12,000 for a hipped one. Labour is quoted at £50 to £130 per square metre, and scaffold at about £1,125. These are national ranges, not Supreme prices. Your own quote replaces them with measurements taken from your roof.
Where the lines usually move
Three lines shift most from one house to the next. Scaffold depends on height, plan and access. The strip depends on the number of layers and on whether the old battens are reusable, which they often are not. Flashings depend on how many chimneys, abutments and valleys the roof has. Seeing these side by side is how a homeowner can tell a fair offer from one that has simply left items out.
Why a survey goes first
A quote built without a survey has to guess at the hidden parts: rafters that have rotted, battens past saving, a valley whose lead has split. Our roof replacement process starts with a loft and ground inspection and photographs, so those items are priced from what we can see. Any further discovery once the covering is off is quoted before it is done.
The guarantee that follows a finished job is ten years on workmanship, given in writing.
Per job
- Gable roof£5,000 to £8,000
- Hipped roof£8,000 to £12,000
- Scaffoldabout £1,125
Per m²
- Labour£50 to £130 per m²
Map showing Linton and the Stroud service radius, with nearby towns we also cover.
Near Linton
Roof work we do here
St Mary's, the listed cross and long drives
I live near St Mary's. Does the church's Grade I listing apply to my roof?
No. Each listing protects the building named in it. Your roof falls under your own entry on the list, if you have one, and under the Linton conservation area. The church does influence how the council reads visible changes close by.
Can I re-roof a house in the Linton conservation area like for like?
Usually yes, without planning permission, provided the building looks the same afterwards. A direction that removes rights, or a listing, can alter that. Herefordshire Council's planning team can confirm, and we recommend asking before work starts.
My house is down a long drive. Will that change how the work is quoted?
It can. We walk the route at the survey and put any extra handling, a longer scaffold run or smaller deliveries into the quote, so you can see their effect beside the roofing work.
Will moss clearance harm an older tile or slate roof?
Gentle methods do not. Manual scraping is the safest on delicate coverings, whereas pressure washing can damage them. We assess the covering first and agree the method with you in the quote.