We recently completed the reroofing of the nave at St Peter’s Church at Hornblotton in Somerset. This Grade I listed building is of Victorian design, built in 1872-74, replacing an earlier church located at this site that fell into disrepair. St Peter’s Church is of significant historical interest, due the […]

We recently carried out an intermediary roof repair on the most complex and interesting roof system I have ever seen. I visited the site alongside Simon Goddard, from The Goddard Partnership architectural design practice, to assess what could be done to restore this fascinating medieval roof back to its past […]

The team at West Country Tilling are fitting their first photovoltaic (PV) slate roof. These are not the usual solar panels you see going up all over the place, these actually look like slates. As with all the roofing projects West Country Tiling undertake, we are very particular about the […]

If your conservatory is too hot in the summer and too cold in the winter, we can solve this by replacing the glazed roof with a solid roof using a light weight polymer slate. By replacing glass with a solid roof, your conservatory can be transformed into a usable space […]

At West Country Tiling we manufacture our own lead for use on most of our restoration projects. This allows us to produce superior lead with good flexibility. One of the most impressive of these projects was Tyntesfield House, a National Trust property in North Somerset. The History of Lead Lead […]

We recently completed the reroof of a Georgian roof in Bath. This property on Widcombe Crescent was built in 1808, on a terrace of 14 Georgian houses that are designated as Grade I listed buildings. As with any listed property, they come with a host of protection orders, specific material […]