Gloucestershire Roof Cleaning cleans roofs in Ledbury: a low-pressure clean or a manual moss scrape, finished with a biocide treatment. Most roof cleans are £550–£950, including a free gutter clear and a 2-year moss-free guarantee.
Free gutter clearance and free biocide on every Ledbury roof clean. Timber-framed and listed properties handled correctly — no high pressure on heritage roofs.
Ledbury lies low beside the River Leadon, which probably gave the town its name, in a sheltered spot under the western slope of the Malvern Hills. The hills keep off the weather from the east. That's pleasant to live with, but it leaves damp air hanging still over the valley floor, and still, humid air is ideal for moss, lichen and gloeocapsa algae. The eastern edge of the parish is in the Malvern Hills AONB, where the wooded slopes facing the town hardly dry out from October to spring.
In the old town, Church Lane — the cobbled lane up to the parish church, lined with leaning black-and-white timber-framed houses — and the High Street below it are crowded with tall old buildings. They shade one another most of the day, the lanes are too narrow for much sun to reach the lower slopes, and old clay, stone and hand-made tile stay wet much longer than modern tile. Left untreated, a High Street roof usually ends up carrying thick moss in the laps, often with rust stains from old lead and valley metal.
The newer HR8 estates — Hopfields off Leadon Way, The Arches off Bromyard Road beside the viaduct, and the homes around Mabel's Furlong — are mostly modern concrete tile. Its textured face gives spores a hold, so even a roof only a few years old can start to show green on its north side in this sheltered air. A fifteenth-century cottage on Church Lane and a new house at The Arches have the same cause, Leadon-valley damp, and the same fix.
Ledbury is also orchard and hop country, with vineyards and woodland on every side, and the town's history is tied up with cider, perry and hops. All that greenery puts spores into the air, and they settle on roofs across the parish and the villages nearby. On weathered tile we won't use high pressure: the surface coating has thinned, and blasting it takes years off the tile for one clean season. Taking moss off by hand and applying biocide is gentler and lasts longer, whether the roof is centuries old or nearly new.
Each covering needs its own approach.
On Church Lane, the High Street, The Homend and the lanes behind them. Much of it is a century or more old and brittle in the wet, sitting on the original timber frame, so we scrape it by hand from a roof ladder over the ridge and use no pressure. Ridges, hips and valleys, where the oldest tiles are, get the most time.
On the timber-framed and Georgian houses through the conservation area, and on older cottages towards Eastnor and Bosbury. Strong, but easily damaged by force: we clear the laps by hand, rinse at low pressure and treat with a neutral biocide, keeping it away from lime mortar and lead.
Most of Ledbury's post-war and late twentieth-century houses have Marley or Redland concrete tile. The rough surface holds spores and the sheltered valley keeps them damp, so moss is usually heavy. We take it off by hand and apply biocide, and the colour carries on improving for a few weeks.
Hopfields off Leadon Way, The Arches and the newest homes near the viaduct: smoother concrete tile, often with solar panels to work around. Young roofs, but they start to green within a few years, usually on the shaded side first. We give these a low-pressure clean and biocide to slow it down.
The medieval centre, the new HR8 estates and the villages around the parish. Leadon-valley damp throughout, with different roofs in each.
The cobbled climb to the church and the timber-framed High Street below it — tall, shaded, listed and black-and-white, on original clay, stone and slate that gets hand-scrape only, never pressure.
The older streets radiating off the centre — a mix of timber-framed, Georgian and Victorian frontages on clay and slate, many inside the conservation area and needing the careful, manual approach.
A new development of around 140 homes about a mile from the centre. The roofs are young now, but in this sheltered air the north-facing pitches will be the first to green, and the cheap stage to treat it is early.
The large new estate off Bromyard Road, beside the 31-arch railway viaduct the development is named after — smooth modern tile, often with solar panels, that we clean at low pressure and treat with biocide while the growth is still light.
The villages immediately east of Ledbury, climbing towards the Malverns and the Eastnor estate — sheltered, wooded, damp, with a mix of old cottage and modern roofs that all green up readily.
The orchard-and-cider villages ringing the town, served on the same trip — older clay and stone cottages surrounded by trees, which means a steady supply of spores and plenty of moss.
Ledbury is one of England's best black-and-white market towns, and its town-centre conservation area protects the medieval street pattern, the half-timbered fronts leaning over Church Lane and the Georgian brick between them, with well over 150 listed buildings inside it. At the centre is the Grade I listed Market House, the timber-framed hall raised on posts, begun around 1617 and attributed to John Abel, the King's Carpenter; close by is the Master's House at St Katherine's, a rare surviving medieval master's lodging. Many nearby roofs are original clay, stone or hand-made tile on old timber frames. We hand-scrape these and never use pressure, which would crack the tile and let water into frames that have lasted centuries by staying dry.
You don't normally need listed-building consent just to have moss and algae removed, because the building isn't altered. Work affecting mortar, lead or the original tile fixings usually does need it, and we'll say so before you book so you can contact Herefordshire Council's conservation team. Lime mortar is protected from biocide by sheeting and rinsing, and lead flashings that have weathered to grey are usually best left alone rather than scrubbed bright, which is how heritage officers prefer it.
Ledbury was laid out in the Middle Ages as a planned market town, and money from wool, then cider, perry and hops, paid for its merchants' houses. As space ran out, frontages were squeezed in and rebuilt, so one High Street terrace can have several kinds of tile, with roofs meeting at odd angles in shared valleys. None of that stops us cleaning it; it's why every roof is surveyed before we price it.
Before we visit, we check your address against the Historic England list. It's a quick check and it can save a planning problem later.
We look at the roof, the gutters and how we'll get up there, then give you a written price. Nobody will push you to book. On the older black-and-white houses in the centre, listed-building points are raised first.
Old clay, stone and slate get a dry moss scrape by hand; sound modern tile can have a low-pressure clean instead. Either way we work from ladders or a tower and clear the gutters as we go, because the growth has to come off before the biocide can reach the spores.
We apply an approved biocide at the correct dilution to kill algae, lichen and leftover spores without high-pressure water on the tiles. In the still, damp air under the Malverns, that's what keeps regrowth back.
Guaranteed against moss, algae and lichen for two years. If regrowth appears in that time, we return and re-treat it at no charge. Written into every quote.
We're on ladders or a tower for most of a Ledbury roof clean, so the gutters get cleared at the same time. The biocide is what keeps the roof clean for two years in this sheltered valley. Neither is charged for.
Ledbury is ringed by trees and orchards, so gutters here fill with moss, leaves and grit. Once they're blocked, rain spills over the edge, runs down the walls and works into render and eaves. We clear the debris as it comes off the roof, so you're left with gutters that work as well as a clean roof. And because the biocide keeps working, most Ledbury roofs go two seasons or more before the roof needs attention again.
Get my Ledbury quoteLedbury roof cleans mostly cost £550–£950, including moss removal, biocide and a free gutter clear. Bigger, steeper or harder-to-reach roofs cost more. The range runs from brittle hand-made clay on listed black-and-white houses to large modern roofs at Hopfields and The Arches, and the delicate ones take slow hand-scraping rather than speed, which is why we don't price over the phone. A typical semi or terrace is within the range; heavy moss, awkward access or a large detached house takes it above.
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Included every time: the gutter clear while we're on the roof, and biocide that keeps moss away for two years.
Just the gutters? Gutter cleaning in Ledbury starts from £90, typically under £150 for a two-storey house, and costs nothing extra when it's done with a roof clean. Read about our gutter cleaning →
How quoting works: a free survey, no obligation, a written price the same day, no deposit, and payment once the work is done. Our roof cleaning cost guide → Further reading: is roof cleaning safe?, why clean your roof?, how to stop roof moss coming back and the best time of year to clean a roof.
At Gloucestershire Roof Cleaning, most roof cleans in Ledbury cost £550–£950, including moss removal, a biocide treatment and a free gutter clear. Larger, steeper or harder-to-reach roofs cost more. We give you a written price the same day after a free survey, with no deposit — you pay when the job's done. See the full roof cleaning cost guide.
No. Hand-made clay, stone and slate on the black-and-white houses around Church Lane and the High Street are hand-scraped and treated with biocide only. High pressure on those would crack the surface and push water into a timber frame that has stayed dry for centuries. Modern concrete tile on the HR8 estates at Hopfields and The Arches can take a controlled low-pressure wash where that's right. Either way it's the biocide, not the force of the water, that keeps the moss off.
Two years, guaranteed. The biocide we apply keeps killing fresh spores after we've left site, and if regrowth appears within two years we come back and re-treat it at no charge. Ledbury is low on the River Leadon in the shelter of the Malvern Hills, and the still, humid air makes roofs re-green faster than on open, higher ground. North-facing slopes in the shaded old streets usually show it first. Pressure washing without treatment lasts about one season, because the spores are still in the tile.
Yes, used correctly. We use approved biocides at the manufacturer's dilution, applied in dry weather so they bond to the tile and don't run off. Pets stay inside while we spray and for an hour afterwards, and borders are covered and watered before and after. Ledbury is surrounded by orchards, gardens and the Leadon valley, so we pay close attention to run-off.
Yes, and this is the work we're most careful with. Ledbury's conservation area holds well over 150 listed buildings, and Church Lane, the High Street and the lanes off them are full of black-and-white timber-framed and Georgian houses roofed in old clay, stone and hand-made tile. We hand-scrape these only, never pressure, and keep biocide off lime mortar and lead by sheeting and rinsing the edges. Removing moss alone doesn't normally need listed-building consent; anything touching mortar, lead or the original fixings does, and we'll flag it first so you can check with Herefordshire Council's conservation team.
Mostly because of where the town sits. It's low on the River Leadon under the western side of the Malvern Hills, with the eastern edge of the parish in the Malvern Hills AONB. The hills shelter the town and the valley floor holds moisture, so the air is humid and slow-moving, which is ideal for moss, lichen and gloeocapsa algae. Add spores from the orchards and woods around the town, and the shaded old streets where little sun reaches the lower slopes, and Ledbury roofs carry more growth than the same house would on open, higher ground. The method doesn't change, but the free biocide does a lot of work here.
Usually not. We work from ladders or a scaffold tower with a long-reach lance, so there's no weight on the tiles and nothing scuffing the ridge. On steep or old roofs, such as the tall, narrow houses in the centre or brittle hand-made clay in the old streets, a roof ladder hooked over the ridge spreads the load. You'll know which method we're using, and why, before we start.
Three reasons. Longer roof life: moss keeps tiles wet so frost does more damage, and old clay or stone in the conservation area is expensive to replace. Working gutters: moss washes into gutters and downpipes, blocks them and sends water down the wall. Insurance and sale: some insurers ask about mossy roofs, and in a town like Ledbury buyers of character houses notice the roof. Cleaning costs far less than replacing tiles or repointing ridges.
Because modern tile greens quickly here, not because anything is wrong with it. The concrete interlocking tile on the new HR8 estates has a textured surface that airborne spores can grip, and Ledbury's sheltered, humid air does the rest, so a roof just a few years old can show a green tinge on its north side. Dealing with it early is the cheaper option: a low-pressure clean and biocide while growth is light, keeps a young roof clear for years instead of letting it mat up like the older estates.
Yes. Solar panels are common on the newer Ledbury estates, and we clean and treat the tiled areas around them. At the survey we'll look at how the panels sit and what that means for access, and the written price takes it into account.
It depends on the roof. Modern concrete interlocking tile on the Ledbury estates can take a controlled low-pressure wash where that's the right tool. Old clay, stone and slate on the black-and-white town-centre and listed houses should never be pressure-washed: it takes the surface off, cracks tiles and forces water in underneath. Those are hand-scraped and treated with biocide. We always tell you the method first.
Neither is better across the board; it comes down to what the roof is made of. The black-and-white and Georgian houses in the old town, with hand-made clay, stone or slate, get a dry moss scrape by hand, so no water pressure goes anywhere near the timber frame. Concrete tile on the post-war streets and the new HR8 estates can have a low-pressure clean, which shifts the moss and the grime in the laps faster. The same biocide follows both, and the 2-year guarantee and free gutter clear apply either way.
From £90 for gutters on their own, and typically under £150 for a two-storey house. If we're cleaning the roof, the gutters are cleared free. With orchards, hop yards and woodland all round the town, Ledbury gutters collect leaves, blossom and moss quickly, so late autumn is a sensible time to have them done.
Yes. We're based in Gloucester and Ledbury is a short drive up the A417, so the town and nearby villages such as Wellington Heath, Eastnor, Bosbury, Much Marcle and Dymock are all in our regular area, with a free survey. On the other side of the Malverns we also cover Malvern, and nearby Newent and Ross-on-Wye.
Yes — Gloucestershire Roof Cleaning carries £5m public liability insurance.
We had excellent service from start to finish. The guys were very professional, discussed everything over the phone initially then a visit with the drone to allow accurate quarter and expectation management. On the day they were considerate with the neighbours, did a wonderful job with the roof and gutters and cleared up so well that everything looked far better than when they started. Cannot recommend more highly.
We had excellent service from start to finish. The guys were very professional, discussed everything over the phone initially then a visit with the drone to allow accurate quarter and expectation management. On the day they were considerate with the neighbours, did a wonderful job with the roof and gutters and cleared up so well that everything looked far better than when they started. Cannot recommend more highly.
Really impressed with Aquapro Roof cleaning. Very professional guys that done such a good job, that it looks like I’ve had a new roof installed, (after 40yrs of dirt and moss). Blake talked me through everything in detail, and answered any questions I had. Showed me the end result with his drone footage and left house clean and tidy. Highly recommended.
Really impressed with Aquapro Roof cleaning. Very professional guys that done such a good job, that it looks like I’ve had a new roof installed, (after 40yrs of dirt and moss). Blake talked me through everything in detail, and answered any questions I had. Showed me the end result with his drone footage and left house clean and tidy. Highly recommended.
100% recommend this team . From start to finish was kept informed.On the morning a text to say what time they will be there and arrived on time . Worked from 9:30 till 7:30pm on the roof and jet washing all the area after. Very professional and had all the kit even a drone to show you the results of the whole area . The difference is amazing and looks like a new roof . Really happy with the results and so many comments from neighbours too saying how good it looks . You will not be disappointed .
100% recommend this team . From start to finish was kept informed.On the morning a text to say what time they will be there and arrived on time . Worked from 9:30 till 7:30pm on the roof and jet washing all the area after. Very professional and had all the kit even a drone to show you the results of the whole area . The difference is amazing and looks like a new roof . Really happy with the results and so many comments from neighbours too saying how good it looks . You will not be disappointed .
The Guys did a fantastic job on my roof and worked nonstop all day to get the job done and left everything clean and tidy after themselves, highly recommend and would look to use again 👍, made a massive difference to the house.
The Guys did a fantastic job on my roof and worked nonstop all day to get the job done and left everything clean and tidy after themselves, highly recommend and would look to use again 👍, made a massive difference to the house.
Would strongly recommend. Swift with good work quality and kept the surrounding areas tidy. Looks like a new roof! Would 100% recommend.
Would strongly recommend. Swift with good work quality and kept the surrounding areas tidy. Looks like a new roof! Would 100% recommend.
What can I say other than WOW !! Massive thank you to Blake and Dan for all of your hard work, so professional and such an amazing job! Left everything spotless so pleased, highly recommend to everyone. Extremely happy
What can I say other than WOW !! Massive thank you to Blake and Dan for all of your hard work, so professional and such an amazing job! Left everything spotless so pleased, highly recommend to everyone. Extremely happy
We'll survey it free and give you a written price the same day. Gutter clearing and biocide come with every roof clean, timber-framed and listed roofs are hand-scraped with no high pressure, and we're fully insured.
