Roofers in Cleadon

Cleadon sits well. A genuinely well-heeled village between Sunderland and South Shields, it keeps its own character below Cleadon Hills, where the landmark windmill and the old water tower stand over the fields, and it protects that character with a conservation area at its heart. The large detached houses here are the kind that are cared for across generations, and a roof on a house like that is not a commodity — it is the crown of a beautiful home, and it should be talked about the way a good tailor talks about cloth. Willow Roofing is an owner-led firm based at Killingworth, reachable from Cleadon via the A19 and the coast road, and the owner, twenty-three years on the tools, surveys and leads every job we take.

We are new to Cleadon, and we prefer to be honest about that. What we bring is the standard behind sixty-three MyBuilder reviews across the North East, all of them positive, and real coastal work in Whitley Bay and North Shields, close enough that the same weather shapes how we build. We price openly, photograph our progress, and put everything in writing before we start. There are no hidden extras on a Willow quote, and there never will be.

Cleadon is a village of large, individual houses, and its roofs reflect that. Within the conservation area sit older stone and brick properties whose roofs carry slate, hand-detailed lead, characterful chimneys and the kind of period roofscape that any work has to respect rather than merely replace. These are roofs to be matched sympathetically, with reclaimed materials where a roof calls for them.

Around the historic core stand generous detached homes of the inter-war and post-war decades and later, under clay and concrete tile, with hipped roofs, dormers and the ample fascias, soffits and guttering that big roofs demand. Set on the higher, more open ground below Cleadon Hills, many of these houses catch a good deal of wind, and the roofs feel it — which makes secure fixing and sound roofline maintenance more than a cosmetic concern here.

We will not pretend to a Cleadon history we do not have. We have not yet worked in the village, and we would rather earn our place than claim it. What stands behind us is sixty-three MyBuilder reviews across the North East, every one positive — a Morpeth client noting after a full re-roof that there were no hidden extra costs — and genuine work along the coast in Whitley Bay and North Shields, a short run from Cleadon on the same roads. We treat the small jobs with the care of the large ones, and we would sooner win our first Cleadon review to a standard worth talking about than borrow one from another town.

In Cleadon's conservation area the work that matters is slate re-roofing and repair matched sympathetically, chimney repointing, and leadwork dressed by hand on the valleys and stacks of the older houses. On the larger detached homes around the village it is tile re-roofing, ridge and verge work on wind-exposed hipped roofs, and replacement fascias, soffits and guttering as the original roofline gives out. We also fit and reglaze Velux and other roof windows, re-roof and repair conservatory roofs, and for anyone considering solar we handle the remove-and-refit of panels around a re-roof ourselves, so both jobs are done once and in the right order.