Oxford runs from pre 1919 slate terraces to estates built since 2000, and a roofing site can carry both.
The Valuation Office stock table for March 2025 records 20.1% of Oxford dwellings as built before 1919 and 41.0% before 1945. We build a slate and chimney repair page, a separate flat roof page, and a conservation page covering the Jericho Article 4 Direction. Free live demo, keep your domain, live in 7 days.
Valuation Office council tax stock table CTSOP4.1, stock at 31 March 2025, covers 63,780 Oxford dwellings. 20.1% of them were built before 1919 and 41.0% before 1945. The city figure is the published local authority total, and the district lines further down are our own totals of the same table over the census areas that make each district up.
The same table records 16.2% of Oxford stock as built in the 1930s and 19.0% in 2000 or later. Census 2021 table TS044 records 9.5% detached, 31.7% semi detached, 27.8% terraced and 24.1% purpose built flats.
Four different buildings sit behind those figures: Victorian and Edwardian slate with lead valleys and chimney stacks, inter war tile at Cowley, Risinghurst and Marston, modern pitched work on the newer estates, and purpose built blocks. We would give the jobs you take on each of them a page, with your own photographs on it.
59.0 per cent of dwellings pre 1919, the oldest ordinary housing in the city (Valuation Office stock tables, 2025).
Victorian terrace slate, secret gutters and party wall valleys, plus chimney stack repointing and lead flashing. Scaffold access off busy narrow streets is the planning problem.
47.4 per cent pre 1919 (Valuation Office stock tables, 2025). Jericho is artisan terrace housing designated a conservation area on 23 February 2011.
Like for like slate. An Article 4 Direction served on 31 March 2011 means planning permission is needed for changes in roofing material and for rooflights facing a highway or waterway.
Large detached and semi detached Victorian houses laid out from the 1850s. North Central Oxford is 43.8 per cent pre 1919 (Valuation Office stock tables, 2025).
Big cut roofs, multiple valleys, decorative ridge and bargeboards, tall stacks. High value re roofs where the customer reads before ringing.
56.1 per cent inter war, the highest share in the city (Valuation Office stock tables, 2025). Temple Cowley is a conservation area designated 24 March 1986.
Inter war semis on concrete and clay tile, hipped roofs, plus the flat roof over the back extension and the garage.
Blackbird Leys is 72.5 per cent 1945 to 1972 with no pre 1919 stock at all (Valuation Office stock tables, 2025).
Post war concrete interlocking tile, felt flat roofs at end of life, fascia, soffit and gutter renewal.
Oxford City Council lists 18 conservation areas: Bartlemas, Beauchamp Lane, Binsey, Central University and City, Headington Hill, Headington Quarry, Iffley, Jericho, Littlemore, North Oxford Victorian Suburb, Old Headington, Old Marston, Osney Town, Oxford Stadium Sandy Lane, St Clement's and Iffley Road, Temple Cowley, Walton Manor, and Wolvercote with Godstow.
Jericho carries an Article 4 Direction served on 31 March 2011. The council's record for it removes permitted development rights for a change in roofing material and for rooflights on elevations facing a highway or waterway.
We would build a page that explains which jobs need permission, states the Jericho material change restriction and its date, and says that you check the address against the conservation area boundary and against any Article 4 direction before you quote.
The local field, 16 September 2026
We counted the Google Maps results for roofers in Oxford on 16 September 2026. The sample was 40 listings: 33 had a website and 7 had none. Two of the 40 are merchants, SIG Roofing and Raven Roofing Supplies, and the sample also returned firms from Swindon, Surrey and South Wales.
That is one dated sample of one search rather than a count of the trade. What we would do with it is name Oxford and the districts you cover on their own pages, each carrying the jobs you have taken there.
Three Oxford firms appeared in the first ten Google local listings we checked for "roofers in Oxford", with sites worth opening. Thames Valley Roofing and Painting, RS and Sons Roofing and Building and North Oxford Roofing and Guttering each open with finished work and a review mark rather than a paragraph about the firm.
Built on WordPress. It carries photographs of its own jobs and reviews on the page. It has no page per area. Quotes come through a form.
The home page carries photographs from its own jobs, a Recent Works page and Checkatrade and Google review marks.
A custom site built by an agency. It carries a page per area and reviews on the page. Quotes come through a form, and the phone number sits in the header.
A top bar carries the freephone number on every page and the site has an Areas We Cover section with a /locations/oxford page.
Built on GoDaddy. It carries photographs of its own jobs and reviews on the page. It has no page per area. Quotes come through a form.
It carries a Gallery page of camera-named job photographs and a reviews section in the main navigation.
One keeps the phone number in the header, all three carry reviews on the page, and one runs a page per area. Each one opened and checked 17 September 2026.
"roofers in Oxford"
1600 searches a month (OpenSEO keyword data, September 2026)
The town page. It names the districts you cover and links down to each one.
"roof repairs Oxford"
170 searches a month (OpenSEO keyword data, September 2026)
A repair page. It shows the slipped slate, valley and chimney stack work you have finished, with the method written out.
"flat roof replacement Oxford"
no recorded monthly volume (OpenSEO keyword data, September 2026)
A flat roof page kept apart from the pitched pages, with its own photographs, its own method and its own quote questions.
"roofer Oxford"
1600 searches a month (OpenSEO keyword data, September 2026)
The same buyer in the singular. It lands on the town page rather than a page of its own.
"slate roof repair Oxford"
no recorded monthly volume (OpenSEO keyword data, September 2026)
A slate page covering like for like replacement, lead and secret gutters. The Valuation Office stock table for March 2025 records 20.1% of Oxford dwellings as built before 1919.
"conservation area roof Oxford"
no recorded monthly volume (OpenSEO keyword data, September 2026)
A conservation page. Oxford City Council lists 18 conservation areas, and its Jericho record sets out an Article 4 Direction served on 31 March 2011.
"roof replacement Oxford"
no recorded monthly volume (OpenSEO keyword data, September 2026)
A full re roof page for the larger North Oxford houses, with one job shown start to finish.
"chimney repairs Oxford"
20 searches a month (OpenSEO keyword data, September 2026)
A chimney page covering stacks, flaunching and flashing, sitting under the repair page.
Of the eight phrases shown, four carry a recorded monthly volume. The four without one are "flat roof replacement Oxford", "slate roof repair Oxford", "conservation area roof Oxford" and "roof replacement Oxford".
See a roofing site we built
A roofing site of ours from ten miles up the A34. Open the quote tool, the job pages and the gallery and use them the way an Oxford customer would.
What every roofing site needs, whatever the town, is on our roofers page.
Oxford is 41.0% pre 1945 stock and 19.0% built in 2000 or later on the Valuation Office stock table CTSOP4.1 for March 2025, and Census 2021 records 24.1% of homes in purpose built flats. Separate pages let us show the photographs, the repair process and the quote questions for each job.
Oxford City Council lists 18 conservation areas, and its record for Jericho sets out an Article 4 Direction served on 31 March 2011 covering a change in roofing material and rooflights facing a highway or waterway. We would build a page that explains which jobs need permission and says you check the address first.
In our sample of 16 September 2026 the Google Maps results for roofers in Oxford returned 40 listings: 33 with a website, 7 with none, and two merchants rather than roofers. That is one dated sample of one search. We would build you a site naming Oxford and its districts on every page.
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We build your roofing site first, put it on a real address and send you the link. No deposit, no contract to read, nothing monthly at the sale.
99 out of 100 on Google's mobile speed test, measured on 15 September 2026. Run the test yourself.
The tool on this page is set to the drainage version so you can play with it. Yours comes with roof repairs, flat roofs, storm damage and re-roofs on the buttons.
Tap the closest match.
An honest answer helps with scheduling. Same day on emergencies.
Helps us work out the likely drain layout.
Optional. A shot of the standing water or the open chamber tells the engineer a lot.
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The engineer will reply within one working day. That is what your customer would see.
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Send us your firm's name and the areas you cover. We build it and send you the link. One firm per trade per area.
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