Nonington · 13.7 road miles north
Roofers in Nonington
Nonington has the Church Street and Easole Street conservation areas close to its centre, and a Grade II* listed cottage among its houses. Both change what is asked before a roof is touched, and Dover District Council answers for each. After the survey you receive one written total price.
- Conservation areas
- Nonington - Church Street and Nonington - Easole Street
- Listed neighbours
- Southdown Cottage, Grade II*, and a Grade II stable block
- Scaffold licence
- Kent County Council, £52 per week for 2026 to 2027
- Time from Folkestone
- About 22 minutes by road, 13.7 road miles
Nonington faults and the route each one takes
What we found
Bargeboard end rotted where the verge meets it
What it fairly needs
Cut out the soft timber and refit the verge.
What we found
Tired covering on a house that is listed
What it fairly needs
Consent before anyone orders materials.
What we found
Flat roof ponding at the low corner
What it fairly needs
New deck falls and a fresh membrane.
The fair ledger
Church Street, Easole Street and a listed cottage come before the price
Nonington's conservation areas and its listed buildings decide the questions asked first. The entries take the boundaries, a Grade II* listing and a flat roof, and each closes on its own stamp.
Entry 01Boundaries
Church Street and Easole Street: the areas that shape a Nonington roof
Nonington - Church Street and Nonington - Easole Street are both designated conservation areas, and Dover District Council is the authority that answers for them.
What a designation changes for the work
Dover District Council is the planning authority for both areas. A designation puts extra weight on design, so the covering, the ridge and the verge details matter more than they would elsewhere, and we plan the work to leave the roofline looking as it did. Ordinary re-covering of a house is a different question from the one a conservation area raises, and our planning guide for roof work explains how the two sit side by side.
Dover publishes a list of Article 4 directions as well, and one of them can withdraw permitted development that a house would otherwise enjoy. Nothing we hold tells us whether one reaches a street in Nonington, so the answer is for Dover District Council to give. The council gets our question first, and the quote is written afterwards.
You receive the council's reply with the price, so you can read both the question we put and the reply. A listing is a separate matter again, and the next entry deals with it.
Does my Nonington house sit in Church Street or Easole Street?
Only Dover District Council can confirm that for an address, and houses a few doors apart can fall on either side of a boundary. We ask the council before we quote, and we pass on exactly what came back so you hold the same answer we do.
Three questions, one order
- Does the address lie in Church Street or Easole Street? Dover District Council can confirm it.
- Does a direction under Article 4 reach the slope of the roof that fronts the street? Check with Dover District Council.
- Does the covering need replacing, or only repairing? The survey settles that, slope by slope.
Neighbours compare notes, yet what one house was told need not apply to the next. A boundary can pass between two front doors, so each address is checked by itself.
What moves a conservation area quote
- Whether the address needs extra consent
- How far the wear runs across the slope
- Matching what is already there
- Scaffold on the verge or the drive
One written total price
Entry 02Listed buildings
Southdown Cottage and a stable block: listed roofs in Nonington
Southdown Cottage is listed Grade II*, and the stables near White House Farmhouse are listed Grade II. Work that touches a listed roof needs consent as well as a plan.
Where listing entries and roof work meet
Historic England holds the list entries. Southdown Cottage is entry 1070271 and was first listed on 23 April 1980. The stables about 5 metres south east of White House Farmhouse are entry 1348699, first listed on 3 December 1986. An entry number identifies the building exactly in any letter to the council.
A listed house keeps its permitted development rights for roof work. Alongside them, section 7 of the Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990 requires consent for works that would alter the building's character. That consent stands apart from any planning approval, and a listed outbuilding is treated like the house beside it.
A few loose tiles on a slope are a repair, and the new ones are chosen to match what is there. Where the whole slope has worn out the discussion moves to the council, and nothing is ordered until it has replied. Our pitched roofing page describes how a slope is read before a verdict is given.
Outbuildings deserve the same care as houses. A stable block or barn roof carries the same listing rules when it is listed, and its timbers can show plainly how an old roof has aged. We look at the ends of the rafters and the wall plate before saying whether a repair is enough, and the council hears about the outbuilding in the same letter as the house.
On a listed roof
Ridge bedding cracked, tiles below firm
Re-bed the ridge
Several pieces slipped on one slope
Refix, swap only the cracked
Whole slope has reached its end
Ask Dover District Council first
1070271
the list number for Southdown Cottage, Grade II*
Historic England list entry
What we photograph for a consent request
- Each slope in full, then the eaves, ridge and verge in close-up.
- The chimney stack and the lead where it meets the covering.
- Any area of damage, with a scale in the picture.
- The underside of the roof, seen from inside the loft where entry is safe.
A council reads a consent request far more easily with those pictures to hand, and the same set stays on file as a record of the roof's condition before work started.
Why a flat roof ponds
A flat roof is never quite flat. On a flat roof the standard is BS 6229:2025, which NFRC sums up as a finished fall no flatter than 1:80 for general areas and internal gutters. IKO, quoting the code of practice, gives 1:40 as the fall a flat roof should be designed for, and our survey measures the fall the deck really has. A roof that ponds at its low corner has lost that fall, through a sagging deck, a settled support or a membrane laid without enough slope.
Dover's wording takes in flat roofs as well as pitched ones, so a new membrane on a Nonington garage or extension is a question for the council before it is a price. Our survey measures the deck, finds where the water sits and checks whether the timber below is dry. Only then can a patch, a re-lined section or a full new deck be recommended.
Our flat roofing page goes through the options, and the written notes name the sound one.
Entry 03Flat roofs
A flat roof that holds water: falls, membranes and Dover's list
Dover District Council lists flat roof coverings among work needing approval even when the replacement is like for like, so a ponding roof has its route checked.
Myth: A flat roof that ponds only needs another coat on top.
Fact: Standing water points to lost fall in the deck, and a coat over the top leaves the ponding exactly where it was.
Four parts of a flat roof
- Deck that sets the fall
- Membrane laid over it
- Upstand where it meets a wall
- Drip trim at the edge
The deck decides whether water leaves the roof or waits on it.
What the survey checks on the deck
- Where the water sits after rain, and for how long.
- Whether the deck boards are firm underfoot or spongy.
- The upstand at each wall junction.
- The trim along the drip edge, and the outlet the water leaves by.
Each result feeds the verdict, so you can see why a patch is enough on one roof and a new deck is needed on another.
Which of these three entries sounds like your Nonington roof?
Send pictures or book a survey, and the written reply names the roof's verdict: mend it, replace it, or wait for the council to answer.
The road from Folkestone to Nonington
13.7 road miles north of Folkestone, about 22 minutes by road. At the 2021 Census, Nonington parish had 922 usual residents. Start with a photograph from your phone. The survey comes after we have seen the roof, so no price is guessed from the road.
Roof questions from Nonington's lanes
Does a roof in Nonington's Church Street conservation area need approval to re-tile?
Dover District Council expects approval for replacing a roof covering even when it goes back like for like, and a conservation area adds questions about design on top of that. Both points are checked together, so the answer you receive covers the whole job. Dover's rule is the one that applies at Nonington addresses, so we put your roof to the council before pricing. Ordinary re-covering is treated separately from the extra rules a designation brings, and our planning guide covers that difference.
Is Southdown Cottage's roof treated differently because it is Grade II*?
Every listed roof, whatever its grade, needs listed building consent for work that changes what the building was listed for. Southdown Cottage is list entry 1070271, and the entry number identifies the building to the council. We begin with photographs, then ask Dover District Council about the work, and you see its answer before anything is booked. That keeps a listed house from being stripped on the strength of a guess.
Who arranges a scaffold licence in Nonington?
The highway authority is Kent County Council, which charges £52 per week for 2026 to 2027 and expects the scaffolding company to apply, not you. We arrange it with our scaffolder. A scaffold kept entirely within the property boundary leaves the highway alone, so no licence is involved, and the visit shows which case yours is before the quote is fixed. No fee is added by surprise afterwards.
Which Article 4 directions affect Nonington?
Check with Dover District Council. The council holds the list, and a direction can withdraw permitted development from a house, which makes the answer depend on the exact address. We ask Dover about your house before the quote is written and hand you the reply, so the work rests on the council's word and never on a neighbour's guess. If the direction turns out not to reach you, we write that down as well.
Who carries out building control for a Nonington re-roof?
Dover District Council's own building control team covers Nonington. Some building control is done by a registered building control approver, not the council's team, so the route depends on the job. We ask Dover first, because its list treats a like-for-like covering as approval work, and we tell you the answer plainly before work starts, with the survey photographs attached to the notes and a clear line on who inspects the finished roof.
How is a ponding flat roof in Nonington put right?
The survey finds where the water sits, measures the fall of the deck and checks the timber below. A roof that has lost its fall, or whose deck has softened, needs more than a coat of paint on top. Because Dover lists flat roof coverings, even like for like, the route is checked with the council before a new membrane is priced. A fresh membrane laid over an unchanged deck would only repeat the fault, which is why the deck is measured first.
A Nonington roof you would like checked?
You'll get one written total price.