Roofers in Hexham & the Tyne Valley

The Tyne Valley asks more of a roof than most of England. Weather funnels along it, the housing stock is old and handsome, and much of it sits in conservation areas where a clumsy repair stays visible for a generation. Willow Roofing works the valley from Killingworth — Wylam and Prudhoe within half an hour, Hexham a little beyond — with the owner, twenty-three years on the tools, leading every job himself.

We have been reviewed in the valley at both ends: a leaking tiled kitchen roof put right in Wylam, and a repair out at Haltwhistle whose owner called it 'a cracking job' and singled out the progress photographs we sent as the work went on. Our sixty-three MyBuilder reviews, all positive, are built on exactly those habits — plain quotes, kept dates and communication throughout. If you cannot be at home while we work, that need not hold anything up.

Hexham's centre is a lesson in how the valley builds: local sandstone under Welsh slate, gathered around the Abbey and the Market Place, much of it within the conservation area. Corbridge is the same story in miniature, its stone cottages and Georgian frontages roofed in slate that deserves matching rather than approximating. On buildings like these, leadwork, chimneys and repointing are half the trade, and getting them right is the difference between a repair and a blemish.

Downstream the stock changes character. Prudhoe mixes older terraces with large modern estates; Stocksfield and Wylam carry Victorian and Edwardian villas alongside comfortable commuter homes, most under slate or plain tile. What all of them share is exposure — wind-driven rain finds every tired flashing and slipped slate in the valley, and roofs here fail at the details long before they fail overall.

Our valley work is on the record. In Wylam we repaired a leaking tiled kitchen roof, finishing within the timescale predicted, keeping the site tidy and updating the owners daily on progress. Further west at Haltwhistle, a roof repair in 2024 earned a review praising reliable, friendly work and the progress pictures we sent throughout — useful anywhere, and especially where owners are out at work all day. Between those two jobs lies the whole valley, and we cover all of it: Hexham, Corbridge, Prudhoe, Stocksfield and the villages between.

Slate is the valley's roof, so slate repair and re-slating lead the list, with reclaimed Welsh slate matched to what is already there. On sandstone houses the supporting trades matter just as much: chimney repointing and re-flaunching, hand-dressed leadwork to valleys and abutments, and mortar verges renewed before the weather opens them up. Exposure makes roofline work — fascias, soffits and guttering — a running theme, and the valley's barn conversions and lofts keep us busy with Velux and roof windows. Where extensions carry flat roofs, EPDM rubber handles the rainfall better than felt ever did.