Roofers in Trowbridge BA14

Trowbridge is the county town, and about fifteen minutes north of Westbury, so it's often the first call of the day rather than the last. It grew rich on wool, and the centre still shows it: Georgian clothiers' houses and former mill buildings, built in stone with proper slate roofs, parapets and box valleys that want dressing in lead rather than sealing over.

Ring that centre with dense Victorian terraces, where a slipped slate or a split valley rarely stays one house's problem — the water tracks sideways under the course and shows up two doors along. Further out, especially around Paxcroft Mead, it's large modern estates: concrete tile roofs, uPVC fascias and plastic guttering, much of it now old enough to be due for replacing before it starts failing at the joints. Three eras of housing, three different roofs, often within a five-minute drive of each other.