Local roofers for Box, Wiltshire — the Hill of Stone. Bath stone and heritage roofing specialists for quarrymen's cottages, listed properties and the village's three conservation areas. Matching materials, lime mortar, and honest advice. Free quotes across Box.
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📞 Call Now: 0122 528 7924We are roofers covering Box, Wiltshire, specialists in the Bath stone and heritage roofing the Hill of Stone demands. From quarrymen's cottages on Box Hill to listed properties across the village's three conservation areas, we handle repairs, re-roofing, leadwork and lime work with matching materials. Call 0122 528 7924 for a free assessment.
Box is the Hill of Stone itself — the village 5 miles north-east of Bath in Wiltshire where the Bath stone that built the city was quarried. Its housing is overwhelmingly oolitic limestone: quarrymen's terraces like Albert Place, The Court, Laura Place and Box Hill Villas, built by the quarry owners in the 19th century, alongside older cottages and the grand houses the stone trade funded.
Roofing in Box is heritage roofing. As the source of Bath stone, the village is built almost entirely of the same honey-coloured oolitic limestone as Bath itself, and the roofs above that stone — clay tile, natural slate, and in the oldest properties stone slate — need the same conservation-grade approach we bring to Bath's listed terraces. We cover Box village and the surrounding hamlets from our Bath base, typically reaching properties within 15 to 20 minutes.
Box has three conservation areas — Box village (designated 1975, extended 1991), Ashley, and Ditteridge/Middlehill — which together contain over 100 of the parish's 232 listed buildings. Roofing work on these is controlled by Wiltshire Council, and visible slopes are expected to keep their traditional stone-slate, clay tile and natural slate character.
The parish sits on higher ground above the steep-sided By Brook valley, a Cotswolds AONB landscape of exposed hillside and damp valley floor. Box Hill catches the prevailing weather with little shelter, while the valley-bottom properties toward the brook hold humidity that drives moss growth and keeps north-facing roofs damp.
The Bath stone factor: Box stone and the broader Bath stone family are soft limestones that must breathe. Any pointing to chimney stacks, parapets or stone-slated roofs must use NHL lime mortar, never cement, which traps moisture and spalls the stone face. This is the single most important thing to get right on a Box roof, and the mistake we most often correct on properties pointed by non-specialists.
The parish spreads across Box village and the hamlets of Kingsdown, Ashley, Hazelbury, Ditteridge and Rudloe, plus the former RAF Rudloe Manor area now given over to housing. The stock ranges from listed quarrymen's cottages on Box Hill to post-war and modern housing at Rudloe, each needing a different roofing approach.
Historic England guidance: Historic England guidance holds that repairs to historic stone roofs and masonry must use lime mortar and matching materials, never cement — a rule that applies across Box's 100-plus listed buildings and three conservation areas.
Roof problem on a Box stone property? Get a heritage-grade assessment from roofers who know the Hill of Stone.
📞 Call 0122 528 7924What sets Box apart from an ordinary roofing job is the stone. This is the village that gave Bath its stone, and the same soft oolitic limestone that faces the buildings runs through the chimney stacks, the parapets, and on the oldest properties the stone-slate roofs themselves. Working on it demands a specialist's understanding: which mortar to use, how to match weathered slate, how to renew leadwork without staining the honey-coloured stone below. It is the same expertise we bring to Bath's listed terraces, applied to the quarrymen's village that supplied them.
We work across the whole parish, from the tightly-packed listed cottages of Box Hill and the conservation core down to the modern housing at Rudloe, matching our approach to each property. On a listed cottage that means lime mortar, matching natural or stone slate, and liaison with Wiltshire Council's conservation team. On a post-war Rudloe house it means straightforward, cost-effective concrete tile or modern slate work without the heritage overhead. Either way, you get an honest assessment of what the roof actually needs and a written quote before anything begins, backed by our 10-year workmanship guarantee.
Not every roof concern needs urgent work, and we'll always tell you honestly if it can wait. The signs worth acting on across Box's housing stock are: a damp patch or stain on an upstairs ceiling after rain, a slate or tile in the garden or gutter, daylight or wet timbers visible in the loft, crumbling mortar on ridges or chimney stacks, or guttering overflowing down the wall. Box sits high above the By Brook valley, catching prevailing weather with little shelter on its exposed stacks and slopes.
When it's not urgent: a single slipped slate on a sound roof, or moss that's cosmetic rather than lifting the covering, can often be monitored or booked in at your convenience rather than treated as an emergency. A free survey settles which camp your roof is in — and whether repair or replacement is the smarter spend.
How we reach a roof in Box depends on the property. Box's quarrymen's cottages and listed stone stock on Box Hill need lime-aware access and careful scaffold footing on the hillside. Most repairs run from towers or roof ladders; a full re-roof or chimney job needs scaffold for safe standing time, which we always itemise in your written quote and arrange ourselves.
Pavement scaffold and skip permits go through Wiltshire Council; allow a few working days on tighter streets like Albert Place, The Court, Box Hill, Laura Place where kerb space is limited. We handle the permit paperwork and liaise with the council so you don't have to.
Indicative price ranges for the roofing work we carry out across Box. Every job is quoted individually after a free survey — these are guide figures to help you budget, not fixed prices.
| Service | Typical range | Notes |
|---|---|---|
| Roof repairs | £150–£1,200 | Slipped slates, leaks, valleys |
| Roof replacement | £6,000–£15,000+ | Full strip and re-lay |
| Flat roofing | £800–£6,000 | GRP & EPDM systems |
| Guttering & fascias | £80–£3,500 | Repair, clean or replace |
| Chimney repairs | £150–£4,000 | Lime repointing, flashing, rebuilds |
| Emergency call-out | £150–£700 | 24/7, no call-out fee |
No deposit on repairs under £500. Staged payments on re-roofs — nothing before materials are on site. Re-roofing an existing home usually qualifies for reduced 5% VAT. All figures include VAT.
Every job we complete in Box carries a written 10-year workmanship guarantee, transferable if you sell the property. Materials — slate, membrane, GRP, guttering — carry their own manufacturer warranties on top.
If a fault appears in covered work, we come back and put it right — no quibbling, no re-charge.
Covering SN13 and surrounding postcodes.
Our quarryman's cottage needed the stone slates repaired and the chimney repointed. They used lime throughout, matched the slate, and clearly knew Box stone inside out. The conservation side was handled properly.
Leak into the bedroom of our listed cottage. They traced it to failed lead around the chimney, renewed it to proper detail and dealt with the consent side with Wiltshire. Couldn't fault them.
Re-roofed our period property in matching natural slate. Honest quote, no surprises, and they understood exactly what a conservation-area roof in Box requires. Recommended.
Yes. We are roofers covering Box and the surrounding hamlets of Kingsdown, Ashley, Hazelbury, Ditteridge and Rudloe, working from our Bath base and typically reaching Box properties within 15 to 20 minutes. We specialise in the Bath stone heritage roofing the area needs.
Box is the source of Bath stone and its housing is overwhelmingly soft oolitic limestone, with over 100 listed buildings across three conservation areas. Pointing and roofing must use lime mortar and matching materials under Wiltshire Council's conservation controls, not modern cement and substitutes.
Yes. We source matching natural slate, clay tile and lime mortar for repairs and re-roofing on Box's quarrymen's cottages and period properties, so work blends with the existing roof and satisfies conservation requirements for the village's protected areas.
If your Box property is listed, work affecting the roof's character usually needs listed building consent from Wiltshire Council before it starts. In the conservation areas, material choices on visible slopes are also controlled. We advise on what is needed and work to the required standards.
Box and Bath stone are soft limestones that must breathe. Cement mortar traps moisture inside the stone, forcing it out through the face and causing it to spall and crumble irreversibly. We use NHL lime mortar, which flexes with the stone and lets it breathe, on all stone roofing and chimney work in Box.
Yes. Alongside the listed and conservation stock, we roof the post-war and modern housing at Rudloe and elsewhere in the parish, where standard concrete tile, modern slate and flat roofing systems apply without the conservation constraints of the historic village core.
For emergencies such as storm damage or an active leak, we aim to reach Box properties within 60 to 90 minutes from our Bath base, making the roof watertight on the first visit. We offer 24/7 emergency cover across Box and the surrounding area.
No call-out fees. No obligation. Honest quote from a local Bath roofer who knows the area.
0122 528 7924