Alfreton sits in the west of the area we cover, with the M1 running past and the former mining villages of South Normanton, Somercotes, Riddings, Swanwick, Tibshelf, Blackwell and Westhouses spread around it. It's industrial-heritage country — collieries, ironworks and the railways that served them — and the housing stock tells that history in terraces built for the workers and the estates that followed the pits' closure.
The stock is a familiar north Derbyshire mix. Somercotes and Blackwell are dense former colliery terraces; Riddings carries its ironworks heritage in Victorian terraced stock; Westhouses is a railway village of distinctive uniform housing. South Normanton has been heavily extended with modern development near the M1, so it mixes older terracing with newer estate roofs now reaching first replacement. Swanwick and Tibshelf sit up on higher ground, exposed to the wind, with mixed older and post-war stock.
The work across Alfreton leans toward re-roofs and pointing on the older terraces, chimney stacks and flashings, and roofline and guttering on the newer estates. The exposed villages at Tibshelf and Swanwick see more ridge and verge loss and flashing failure from the wind.
We cover Alfreton and every village around it with the full trade — new roofs and re-roofs, repairs, emergency call-out, flat roofing, chimneys, pointing, leadwork, guttering and slating and tiling — quoted free and finished before we move on.
