Lead Roofing
We have over 40 years experience in lead roofing and leadwork, specialising in creating eye catching home extensions, as well as restoration, heritage and ecclesiastical projects, including Clarence House, Kensington Palace, The Tower of London, Claridges, Brentwood Cathedral and the Duchess of Kent Morsoleum in Frogmore House Grounds, Windsor. It doesn’t matter how small or secluded your home extension is, we will give it the same standard of high quality workmanship we would apply to any stately home. Below are a few of our Lead Roofing projects in our Lead Roofing Portfolio and more information can be found about this historic roofing material in our Lead Roofing Technical Information Section.
Lead Roofing Portfolio

Lead Roofing heritage work
on a Church Roof
We were contact by the specialist builders of this project, who mainly deals with ecclesiastical and heritage works, for us to replace the lead roof on this notable church. Because of its heritage design the requirement on this roof was for Sandcast lead to be used. Sandcast lead is the

Lead Roof on Small Rear Extension for Residential House
This vented and slightly pitched cold Lead Roof Extension was created in code 5 milled lead using the traditional lead roofing method. The roof was created to extend a kitchen within a mews terrace and thus the exterior working space was tight. The architect, who did not wish for guttering

Lead Roofing on Porch
of Residential Property
The builder of this residential front porch contacted us to create a lead roof to finish the project on this high end residential property. We were asked to create the roof in Code 5 Spun Cast Lead which we did according the their instructions. We created a fully bossed central

Leadwork Roofing on a Manor House
We carried out lead roofing repair work to this notable manor house, which included the section below of flat roofing around one of chimneys, which had been rebuilt. We stripped and recycled the old leadwork which had been on the building for several generations and completed the new works in

Lead Roofing Work on
Brentwood Cathedral
We carried out various leadwork restoration to the cathedral which included leadwork to the stone cornices and lead box gutters, but the principle part of the project was the leadwork to the main porch entrance (shown below).

Lead Roofing for a Bay Window
on a New Build Home
We were asked by the builders of this new build property to create a lead roof to the front bay window. We created this using code 5 milled lead in the traditional lead roofing style. As always, we worked closely with the builder to ensure that the Lead Roofing Codes

Leadwork to the Duchess of Kent Mausoleum (Frogmore House)
The specialist heritage builders carrying out this restoration, called us in to replace the leadwork on the roof of the Duchess of Kent mausoleum. We stripped the original lead which had been on there for 100+ years and recycled it. We then carried out the necessary restoration replacing the oval parapet

Lead Roofing for Large Residential Extension
We were contact by the builders on this project and advised that a change of plans meant that a lead roof was now required by the owner on this large extension, being created to provide additional space in the kitchen, diner and living areas. This Lead Roof Extension was created
Lead Roofing - Technical Information

Lead Roofing – Technical Information
Lead Roofing is one of the oldest forms of metal roofing and is particularly prevalent in heritage and ecclesiastical works, but is also well used in general types of roofing such a lead flashing on private homes and also on commercial properties. Because of its natural properties Lead Roofing is