Lancashire · Ribble Valley
Lancashire roofers covering Longridge: slates, stacks and gutters
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Damp at the top of a bedroom wall in a stone terrace? Peak Roofing is a roofing company based in Lancashire, covering Longridge. A quarter of Longridge’s homes were built before 1919, and on those stone terraces it’s usually a slipped slate or tired lead round the chimney letting the water in. On the newer estates it’s more often a gutter.
What goes wrong on Longridge roofs
Longridge splits almost exactly three ways between detached houses, semis and terraces, so the roof on one street can be a very different job from the next. The terraces are the oldest, often stone under slate. Slate of that age usually fails at the nails, so pieces slip one at a time long before a whole slope gives up. Putting back the few that have gone, and checking the fixings on the rest, keeps it a repair.
Along a terrace row the chimney stacks are often shared, with one stack carrying the flaunching and lead for two houses. When the top cracks or the lead lifts, the damp can show in either home, and water can run a fair way under slate before it drips. We check a shared stack from both sides and look along the slopes next to yours, not just the patch above the stain.
Then there’s the newer Longridge: almost a quarter of homes have gone up since 2000. Those estates usually carry concrete tiles with uPVC fascias and gutters, and a flat roof over the odd garage or extension. Faults there sit at the edges, so it’s a sagging gutter, a loose ridge or felt that has split where it meets the wall.
Listed homes and conservation areas in Longridge
Ribble Valley Borough Council has three conservation areas in the town: Longridge itself, St Lawrence’s Church and Newtown. Like-for-like repairs, slate back on slate and lead renewed in lead, are usually fine inside them. Some houses are listed as well, such as the Grade II row on Higher Road begun in 1793, sandstone under slate with brick stacks, and on a listed house any change to its character needs consent. Before you alter what a roof is covered with, get the council’s view first.
Ribble Valley Borough Council
Rain nearly every other day, and pointing that never dries
At Stonyhurst, the nearest weather station, rain falls on about 175 days a year, close to one day in two. That gives water plenty of chances to find a slipped slate or a gap in the lead, and a stone stack that gets soaked several times a week rarely has time to dry right through.
Winters bring frost on top of the wet. Water in old pointing, flaunching and ridge mortar freezes and swells, and over a few winters pieces work loose and drop into the gutter. Grit and broken mortar in the gutter is often the first sign a ridge or stack needs repointing.
Roof repairs in Longridge: what we check first
- Slipped slates on terraces Rusted nails let slates slide out, and in weather this wet, a gap never stays dry for long.
- Shared chimney stacks Flaunching and lead on a shared stack affect the houses either side, so both edges get checked.
- Extension abutments Where a lean-to roof meets the main wall, the flashing takes a heavy load of run-off.
- Gutters on newer homes A blocked or sagging gutter on an estate house often shows up as damp on the wall below.
How a roof job runs
- Call or text Peak Roofing, or send the form, with what you can see.
- We look at the roof itself, not just the stain inside.
- You get the price before any work starts.
Roofing services covering Longridge
Questions
Longridge roofs: questions
Does being in a Longridge conservation area change a roof repair?
Not for like-for-like repairs, as a rule. The council has changed the Longridge boundary several times over the years, so check its current plan on the Ribble Valley Borough Council website rather than an old map, and ask the council before changing the roof covering.
Can you repair the slate roof on a Longridge terrace?
Yes. Slipped and broken slates are replaced in slate among the old ones, and lead is renewed where it has failed. When nails are giving up right across a slope, re-slating that slope may be the sensible answer, and we’ll tell you which it is. Our page on re-roofing explains more.
Why does my Longridge chimney breast get damp after heavy rain?
Usually the cause is on the stack, not the wall: cracked flaunching round the pots, pointing that frost has opened, or lead that has lifted where the stack meets the slates. On a stack shared along the row, the fault can just as easily be on next door’s side. See chimney repairs.
Where the facts on this page come from
- ONS Census 2021, TS044 Accommodation type (Nomis), output areas in the ONS 2022 built-up area: Households by accommodation type in Longridge: 30% detached, 31% semi-detached, 30% terraced, 9% flats (3,873 households). Read 2026-11-05.
- Valuation Office Agency: Council Tax stock of properties 2026, table CTSOP4.1 (build period), LSOAs in the built-up area: Homes by build period in Longridge: 25% before 1919, 4% 1919-1939, 36% 1945-1982, 34% since 1983 (England and Wales: 21% before 1919). Read 2026-11-05.
- Met Office: Stonyhurst climate station, 1991-2020 averages: 1,314.5 mm of rain a year, 175.4 days with 1 mm or more. Read 2026-11-05.
- Ribble Valley Borough Council: conservation areas: Longridge, St Lawrence’s Church (Longridge) and Newtown (Longridge) conservation areas; numerous changes to the Longridge boundary, current plan published (re-read 5 Nov 2026) Read 2026-11-05.
- British Listed Buildings: 6-44 Higher Road, Longridge: Grade II row of houses begun 1793, squared coursed sandstone, slate roof, brick stacks Read 2026-11-05.