Roofers across Royston and the SG8 villages on the Hertfordshire and Cambridgeshire border

Local homes

Georgian and Victorian town houses with slate and clay tile roofs, older timber-framed buildings with tall brick chimneys, Victorian and inter-war terraces, and newer estates with concrete tiles and flat-roofed extensions.

Royston sits below the open chalk downland of Therfield Heath, and wind coming across the high ground and the flat farmland to the north tests ridges, verges and chimney pointing.

Around Royston

• Royston Cave, a man-made chalk cave with carved walls, discovered in 1742 beneath the town's central crossroads
• The crossing of Ermine Street and the Icknield Way, the ancient routes the town grew up around
• The site of the Augustinian priory founded by Ralph de Rochester
• Therfield Heath, the chalk downland on the south-western edge of town

Planning and listed buildings

Like-for-like roof repairs usually do not need permission, but work to listed buildings, or changes in a conservation area, may need consent from North Hertfordshire District Council. We will flag this before any work starts.