The Butter Cross in Swaffham was built in 1781-1783 for George Walpole, the third Earl of Orford. It is timber, rendered and painted to imitate limestone, with a lead roof and a stone base, and it has been restored in 1873, 1904, 1984 and again in 2018. That is the plain lesson of any roof in this town: a covering only keeps working while somebody keeps going back to it. We work on Swaffham roofs the same way. Slipped and cracked tiles, worn lead around stacks and valleys, ridges that have lost their bedding, gutters and fascias that have stopped moving water away from the wall. We will get up there, tell you what has actually failed and what has not, and price the work in front of us. Small repairs, full strip and re-cover, flat roofs on extensions.
Swaffham sits 12 miles east of King's Lynn, so it is a straight run out for us rather than a job we have to plan a day around. The parish church of St Peter and St Paul is listed Grade I, built of flint, Barnack stone and some brick, with lead roofs and a 14-bay early 16th-century double hammerbeam nave roof. The town is also known for its two large Enercon E-66 wind turbines.
Take 21 and 23 Market Place: probably mid-17th century, flint and brick, with a pantile roof, two storeys with a dormer attic, and chimney stacks rebuilt in the 20th century. Roofs put together that way mean pantiles to strip and relay, dormer cheeks and abutments to keep watertight, and older stacks whose flashings need renewing.
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Storm damage, active leak, damaged ridge - we aim to be on-site within 24 hours.