Roofers in Sherfield on Loddon
A village round The Green, with a cruck barn dated to 1391
Sherfield on Loddon has 16 listed buildings within 500 metres of its centre. We survey and photograph a roof before saying what it needs, whatever it is covered with.
Sherfield on Loddon roofs, from The Green to Breach
Houses round The Green
Around 40 homes encircled The Green early in the 20th century, and the open land is still a feature.
Breach Barn
A cruck-framed barn dated to 1391, its half-hipped roof tiled on three sides and slated on one.
Thatched cottages
The Thatched Cottage, Wayback and Four Winds keep their timber-frame construction and thatched roofs.
Sherfield on Loddon between Bramley and Hook
Bramley is to the north-west, with Chineham south-west, Hook south-east and Old Basing due south. Silchester lies further out to the north-west, and Mortimer to the north.
- Distance
- 26.5 road miles east of Andover
- Planning
- Basingstoke and Deane Borough Council
- Council
- Basingstoke and Deane Borough Council and Hampshire County Council
The Sherfield roof report
Local editionSherfield on Loddon, HampshireA green, a barn and mixed coverings
Round The Green and out to the barn: how roof work is read in Sherfield on Loddon
Sherfield on Loddon sits 26.5 road miles from Andover, under Basingstoke and Deane. The report covers the mixed coverings on its historic buildings, the conservation area appraisal, the listed barn and farmhouses, and the county scaffold licence.
The Green, Breach Barn and a roof of two coverings
Sherfield on Loddon grew around its Green. Early in the 20th century only about 40 homes encircled it, and the open land is still a distinctive feature of the village. The parish is low-lying, set on the Reading to Basingstoke road and bounded by the River Loddon and its tributary brooks. The 2021 Census counted 1,567 usual residents in the civil parish. Houses around a green are mended one at a time, so we survey each roof on its own and record every past repair we find, good and bad.
Breach Barn, east of the village, shows what that history looks like overhead. It is a five-bay cruck-framed timber barn, dated by dendrochronology, which is tree-ring dating, to 1391. A cruck frame is built from matched curved timbers that rise from low in the wall to the ridge. The barn's half-hipped roof, which has a small hip at the top of each gable instead of a vertical end, is tiled on three sides and slated on one. A roof that mixes tile and slate is two jobs in one: each covering needs its own fixings, its own flashings and its own repair.
Natural slate has a floor on pitch. BS 5534 indicates that the minimum roof pitch for natural slate is 20 degrees, and Cupa advises against hook fixings on pitches below 25 degrees, which matters on a shallow barn slope; check the slate's data sheet. HomeBuilding (September 2025) gives Welsh slate 100 or more years, Spanish natural slate 75 to 100 years and reclaimed Welsh slate 50 to 80 years, as typical lives and never as promises. We check slope, nail fixings and slate thickness together before saying whether a slated side can be patched. The tiled sides are checked for slipped and cracked tiles in the same visit.
Elsewhere Sherfield keeps thatched houses. The Thatched Cottage, Wayback and Four Winds retain their timber-frame construction with thatched roofs. Thatch is a trade for a specialist thatcher, and an owner should call one in, early in the planning. The tiled or leaded remainder of such a house, with its chimney and gutters, can be surveyed by us, and the thatcher can have the photographs.
Sherfield Manor, in its park east of the Basingstoke road and close to the village, was entirely rebuilt by J. B. Taylor in 1898, so even the big house is centuries younger than Breach Barn. That age gap is worth remembering when two roofs sit side by side: they may share a postcode and a parish and nothing else.
The appraisal, the farmhouses and the conservation area
The Sherfield on Loddon Conservation Area Appraisal lists brick and clay tile, with timber-framing, thatch and some slate on historic buildings. That is a helpful reference for any repair, because it records the materials the village is built from. We take it as a guide to matching: a clay tile has a texture and a camber that a pressed copy cannot imitate, and a slate that was cut to a particular size should be replaced by one of the same size, which is why we measure before we order. Our slate roofing page covers the slate that survives on older buildings.
A half-hipped roof has hips and a ridge to keep sound. Those are the ridge and hip tiles, which cap the meeting lines of the slopes. Which? (November 2025) gives £80 to £300 to put in a new ridge tile, excluding VAT, and MyJobQuote (October 2026) gives between £225 and £550 for replacing ridge tiles. Those are typical UK ranges and national guides. A ridge that has lost its bedding is a common reason for water in the roof space, so it is among the first things we photograph.
Historic England's list holds 16 listed buildings within 500 metres of the Sherfield centre. At Breach Farm the barn, about 35 metres west of the farmhouse, is Grade II* (list entry 1092815), first listed on 17 September 1980, and Breach Farmhouse (1339604) and Court Farmhouse (1339606) are Grade II. The ordinary permitted development rights of a house survive listing, but alterations to the building's character call for listed building consent from Basingstoke and Deane. On a farm building or farmhouse roof we begin with matching repair and put close photographs in front of the officer.
The conservation area is mapped within about 0.75 km of the centre. Basingstoke and Deane's roof-specific Article 4 wording belongs to four conservation areas in the town of Basingstoke, and Sherfield on Loddon is not among them. That describes what the council has published, not what applies to your house, so the planning team is consulted before we price. In a conservation area a dormer goes to the planners first, and the planning permission for roof work guide sets out the other limits.
For approval questions, the borough's Building Control team is on 01256 844844, and a registered approver can do the same work privately. Its building regulations page lists re-covering a roof among alterations that might need approval. We take it as a reason to ask and not a rule for every job, so a call to the team comes first and the answer goes into your report.
“Sherfield on Loddon's roofs were mended house by house, so each slope is surveyed on its own.”
A low-lying village and the county licence
Low ground near the Loddon makes drainage worth a look on any survey here. Water shed into a gutter that cannot carry it away ends up in the wall, and mending the wall costs more than mending the gutter. Whatever the roof, a Victorian slope or a recent extension, each outlet is checked and each downpipe traced, and what we find is photographed. Our guttering, soffits and fascias page explains the work.
Highway scaffold in Sherfield is a county matter. Hampshire County Council licenses it under section 169 of the Highways Act 1980, taking the application from the scaffolding company, which acts for its customer. Hampshire County Council's rules have ten clear working days elapse before a licence starts, and its fee is £211.90 for the first 2 weeks and £72 for each further 2 weeks, with hoarding extra. Further conditions are £10 million of public liability cover for the scaffold, a 1:500 plan and signing and guarding proposals, and no extensions. A private drive falls outside it.
What follows from those terms is careful planning. Since an expired licence cannot be extended, the period requested allows for rain, and the dates are agreed with you before anything is lodged. A short job on a village lane may need only a tower on your own land, which avoids the licence altogether, and a tower is quicker to put up and to take down, so the neighbours notice it for less time, and it needs no road space. When the road is needed, the licence is one part of the total quoted to you, together with the scaffold itself and the clearing of waste.
Work here is modest and local: roof repairs after slipped clay tiles, a failed flashing where a stack meets the slope, and gutters that have pulled from their brackets. Lead often seals the joint, and any that has lifted or split is photographed. MyJobQuote (September 2026) gives a full set of chimney leadwork between £350 and £920, depending on scaffold, as a typical UK range. The stack on an older house is a likely place for a lead fault to show, and on a farmhouse the stack is often the tallest part of the roof. The sequence is always the same: look, photograph, explain, and only then put a price in writing. That order matters most on an old building, where the real fault is seldom where the stain on the ceiling suggests, and water can travel a long way along a timber before it shows.
Sherfield on Loddon: the jobs we take on
Sherfield on Loddon roofs: The Green, the barn and the county
What does a roof tiled on three sides and slated on one, as at Sherfield on Loddon's Breach Barn, mean for repairs?
That each side is a separate job. Breach Barn's half-hipped roof is tiled on three sides and slated on one, and a mixed roof needs each covering treated in its own way. Tile and slate need different fixings and flashings, so each slope is surveyed and photographed, then repaired in its own material instead of being treated as one roof.
What is the minimum pitch for natural slate on a Sherfield roof?
BS 5534 indicates a minimum of 20 degrees for natural slate, and Cupa warns against hook fixings below 25 degrees. A slated slope on a barn or outbuilding may be shallower than that, so we measure the pitch at the survey before we say whether patching or a new fixing method is sensible.
Do I need consent for a roof repair in the Sherfield on Loddon conservation area?
Matching tiles put back are judged on their own, apart from any change of shape or material, and Basingstoke and Deane's planning team can say which applies to your house in Sherfield on Loddon. Listed houses need listed building consent for work that alters their character. The team is asked before pricing, and its answer reaches you in writing, with the photographs it refers to.
How soon can scaffold go up on a Sherfield road?
Allow at least ten clear working days, which is the gap Hampshire County Council wants between application and start. Hampshire County Council wants the request lodged by the scaffolding firm, at £211.90 for the first 2 weeks and £72 for each further 2 weeks. A tower kept within your own boundary is licence-free. Dates are settled with you first.
From Bramley to Hook, around Sherfield on Loddon
Start with a survey in Sherfield on Loddon
Tell us the house name and attach a picture. We survey, ask the council what applies, then price once.
10-year workmanship guarantee, in writing.