Worth · north-east of Folkestone, 19 road miles by car
Roofers in Worth
A village of 1,005 residents with a Grade II* church, a listed farmhouse beside it and a conservation area of its own. Before we price work to the roof, whatever its size, we find out which of those layers reaches your address, and we look at any garage or outbuilding roof as well. Each answer is written down.
- Church beside the farmhouse
- St Peter and St Paul, Grade II*, a Church of England church in use
- Worth's own conservation area
- Worth, designated, with the list held by Dover District Council
- Sign-off for a replaced covering
- Dover District Council's building control department itself
- Poles on a Worth lane
- Kent County Council; we arrange it with our scaffolder
Three Worth survey findings, each with a verdict attached
What we found
Cement sheets on a garage roof
What it fairly needs
Handle with care and plan the removal.
What we found
A gutter dipping away from its outlet
What it fairly needs
Re-hang the run to a steady fall.
What we found
Tiles breaking up across the slope
What it fairly needs
Take the slope back to the battens and start again.
The fair ledger
A listed farmhouse, Worth's conservation area and a garage roof's cement sheets
Worth raises three questions: which consent applies beside a Grade II* church and a listed farmhouse, what the village's conservation area and Dover's rules mean for a re-roof, and what to do about cement sheeting on a garage. Each entry ends on a verdict.
Entry 01Farmhouse
Church Farmhouse beside the church: which consent applies
Worth's church is listed Grade II*, and the farmhouse beside it carries its own Grade II entry. The two follow different routes, and your house follows neither unless it is named.
Faculty for the church, consent for the house
Worth's parish church is entry 1263919 on Historic England's list, and Church Farmhouse and Wall Attached is entry 1247848. Both were first listed on 11 October 1963. Worth War Memorial, entry 1393477, is listed Grade II and was first listed on 9 October 2009. Church Farmhouse stands close to the church on the list's map, but an entry protects the one building it describes, so the survey tests every address against the list.
The church is a working Church of England place of worship, which means the Church of England's faculty system governs work on it. A listed house takes a different route. Under section 7 of the 1990 Act, listed building consent from the council comes first for any work altering its character, and the listing leaves the right to do roof work as permitted development untouched.
An unlisted house nearby is on neither route. It is ordinary pitched roof work, and our planning guide shows where the limits fall. If yours is the farmhouse, or another house named in an entry, we keep any repair as modest as the roof allows and ask the council before a price is set, so the quote you receive already reflects the answer.
Which route fits
Parish church, in use for worship
Church of England faculty
Listed farmhouse, work alters character
Listed building consent
House with no entry on the list
Ordinary rules apply
My Worth house is near the church. Does its listing apply to me?
Not on its own. A listing rests on the building it names, and only a house that is itself named in an entry needs listed building consent for its roof. A search of the list answers that in minutes. We run it before pricing and write the result down, so a neighbour's rules never end up on your quote.
What sets the price
- Whether your house has an entry
- What the covering has to match
- How much of the roof is touched
- How we reach the eaves
One written total price
Entry 02Village area
Worth's conservation area, and what Dover's building control adds
Worth has a conservation area of its own, and Dover District Council holds the list. The council's building control team has a separate rule that covers every re-roof in the village.
Two rules, two departments
The Worth conservation area lies by the centre of the village. Dover District Council counts 57 conservation areas in its district and publishes the list that confirms or rules out an address. Houses on the fringe are the ones that need checking, and a glance at a street plan will not settle them, because a boundary can run along the back of a garden as easily as down the middle of a lane.
Ordinary re-roofing remains normally permitted development inside a conservation area, though the council pays closer attention to design. An Article 4 direction can switch off some of those rights for a stated area, and Dover District Council says whether your road falls in one. We pass the question on, then record the reply beside the survey photographs, so the evidence for each decision sits in one place and can be shown to a buyer or a surveyor later.
Building control is run by a different team with a different test. Dover District Council's building control page says replacing roof coverings "even if this is just like for like" needs approval, and so does "installing roof lights". For a full renewal in Worth, see our roof replacement service, which starts with that approval route.
Myth: A conservation area means no new roof covering is allowed.
Fact: Ordinary re-roofing is normally permitted development there. The designation adds attention to design and the chance of an Article 4 direction, so the council confirms your road before any plan is fixed.
57
conservation areas in the Dover district, the figure Dover District Council gives
Worth's is one of them
What sets the price
- Whether the road lies in the area
- A like-for-like re-cover or roof lights
- The approval route that applies
- How we reach the slope
One written total price
Treat the sheeting as asbestos until known
HSE advises treating any building put up or refurbished before 2000 as one that contains asbestos. Its guidance on asbestos cement roofs adds that they are always fragile, so nobody should step onto a sheet. At the survey we stay off the sheeting, look at it from a safe position and note its condition, because the condition decides the method.
HSE puts careful removal of asbestos cement, such as roof sheeting, without breaking it up in its non-licensed category, weathered sheets included provided they are not substantially damaged. Sheeting that has been badly damaged or broken into pieces falls under a different category of work. What we see on the roof therefore settles how the job is done and who must be told.
The waste has rules of its own. HSE's guidance calls for a lockable skip and rules out an open one, and the household consignment-note exemption does not extend to asbestos waste. Kent's recycling centres take a householder's own small amounts, apart from Sheerness, if the sheets are wrapped and taped as Kent describes. Our garage asbestos roofs page describes the work, and the quote names how the sheets leave the site, who carries them and where they are taken.
Entry 03Garage roofs
Cement sheets on a garage: handled carefully or not at all
Garage and outbuilding roofs of corrugated sheeting may contain asbestos. A survey treats them with care, and that shapes both the method and the waste route.
What the sheets tell us
Whole sheets, weathered only
Careful removal, kept intact
Sheets broken up or substantially damaged
A different category of work
Roof built well after 2000
Ordinary survey applies
Can I take my own cement garage sheets to a Kent tip?
Every Kent household waste recycling centre except Sheerness takes it. Kent asks for it double wrapped in heavy duty bags, taped, kept damp and declared as coming from your home, and no more than 5 sacks a month go free. A roofer's waste is a separate matter and moves on a consignment note.
What sets the price
- Condition of the sheets
- How the sheets are removed
- Where the waste is taken
- What replaces the roof
One written total price
Which of these Worth entries is closest to your roof?
Photographs make an easy first step, and a visit can follow. The verdict arrives in writing, then one written total price.
Reaching Worth from Folkestone
Worth lies north-east of Folkestone, 19 road miles away, about 28 minutes by road. At the 2021 Census Worth parish had 1,005 usual residents. The middle of Worth is mapped by the Environment Agency as Flood Zone 2, which is a note about the land and no rule for roofs. Photographs are taken at every survey.
Worth roofs: garage sheeting, the church and Zone 2
Is the cement sheeting on my Worth garage roof asbestos?
It may be. HSE advises treating a building put up or refurbished before 2000 as one that contains asbestos, and its guidance on asbestos cement roofs says they are always fragile. We keep off the sheets and look from a safe position. The survey records their condition and explains what that means for the method and the waste route, and none of it is priced until you have read the finding. If the sheets are sound, it may be a repair; if not, a replacement.
Does re-roofing a Worth house need Building Regulations approval?
Dover District Council's building control page says replacing roof coverings "even if this is just like for like" needs approval, as does "installing roof lights", so a re-roof in Worth goes to Dover's own building control team. The Planning Portal's national guide describes under 25 per cent of the building envelope and under 50 per cent of the roof as the normal test. Fitting a covering 15 per cent or more heavier brings its own need for approval. The route is recorded before you agree to anything.
Is my house covered by the Worth conservation area?
Dover District Council holds the answer. Dover District Council counts 57 conservation areas in its district and keeps a published list, and your address is checked against that, not guessed from the postcode. Where a house stands close to an edge, the survey write-up gives the council's name beside the result, so you know where the answer came from and when it was asked. The check itself is short, and no price is written until it is finished.
Does the Grade II* church affect work on a house near it?
The listing is the church's alone. Services are still held there under the Church of England, which puts the church under the faculty system. A house is affected only if it is named in an entry of its own, and then listed building consent has to come first for work that changes its special character. The list is searched ahead of the written price, and the result is noted. Where nothing turns up, the ordinary rules apply to your roof.
Who sorts out highway scaffold permission in Worth?
Kent County Council grants highway licences for scaffold, at £52 per week for 2026 to 2027, and its advice is that the scaffolding firm, not the householder, applies. We arrange it with our scaffolder. Where the poles will stand, and how long they stay, is settled with you when we visit, and the cost sits inside the single written price.
Does Flood Zone 2 change how a Worth roof is repaired?
Flood Zone 2 is how the Environment Agency maps the middle of Worth. It tells you about the land, not about slates and fixings, so it plays no part in how the survey judges a roof. For flooding at your own address, the Environment Agency is the body to ask; a roofer's guess would add nothing. We look at the roof itself, and at nothing else, when we survey.
Tell us about the Worth roof worrying you
You'll get one written total price.