CLAUDE N. SMITH
Specialist Collyweston Stone Slate Roofing with Slate Mine
Our Projects
Below we feature images for many of the projects that we have completed.
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Clare College, Cambridge *Phase 2*
Re-slating phase 2 with new Collyweston slate and reclaimed slate to the remaining 3 sides of the quadrant. Including 78 dormer windows to slate
Old Westbury Gardens, Long Island
A house listed as National importance in the USA and a venue for many Hollywood films over many decades.
Suppling and exporting over 500 Sq.m of New Collyweston slate and fixing in two phases between the Covid pandemic.
Main Contractor Preserv Inc.
Blackthorn Lodge, Lower Benefield
A former farmhouse Grade 2 Listed brought for refurbishment.
Roofs over 200 years old and time for re-slating.
Kings College Cambridge
Complete new supply and fix of new Collyweston slate of approximately 1500 Sq.m
Completed in 12 months.
This roof won the Heritage Roofing category for the UK Roofing Awards 2020 and also the overall UK Roof of the year Award.
Main contractor RG Carter
Mill House Castor
Refurbishment of a Grade11 Listed building.
Salvaging the reclaimed slate and reusing on the rear roof slopes.
Suppling and fixing New Collyweston Slate on the Front roof slope.
Proctor Roofshield membrane.
The Rooflight Company Neo roof windows.
Laced Valleys.
Lead dormer Cheeks and front.
Main contractor, Linx Construction.
Gretton Hall
Installing imitation Collyweston slate without planning permission is not a good idea.
Forced to remove and reaffix new Collyweston slate on the grade 2 listed building.
Upper Benefield
Development of outbuildings and Old Wheatsheaf pub.
Concrete tiles removed from outbuilding and New Collyweston slate supplied and fitted.
Old pub re-slated.
Main Contractor KGBP Construction
Christ’s College, Cambridge
Phase 1 Re-slating with new Collyweston slate.
Phase 2 to start June 2023 with new Collyweston slate.
Main Contractor Regent Construction
Clare College, Cambridge
Phase 1 re-slating of the North Range and west wing.
Main Contractor Cocksedge.
New builds St Pauls street Stamford
Slate reclaimed from disused demolished buildings, re-dressed and re-used on the front elevation of the Conservation area street.
UK Roofing award winner 2018 in the slate roofing category.
Main contractor Burghley developments.
Pychley Church
Re-slating the Nave.
Croyland Abbey, Wellingborough
Re-slate
Old Hall Mews Cottesmore
Poorly slated a few years prior.
Re-slated properly.
Langham Hall
Water ingress and the wrong lime mortar used with stretched slate.
Re-slated with new slate to make up deficiency.
Mine Rescue Exercise
Mine rescue exercise, pleased to be able to help the emergency services with a venue for exercises.
This exercise was to fill the mine with a smoke, (zero visibility) put out a machine fire and rescue a mine worker overcome with smoke.
Collywestion Water Spider
The Collyweston Water Spider. Only a few million years old, found only in the seam of Collyweston stone.
Christ’s College, Cambridge *Phase 2*
Christ’s College Cambridge, re-slating phase 2 with new Collyweston slate
Guildhall in London
Re-slated in 10 phases over 10 years in the 1990s by Claude and team.
The largest singular Collyweston slate roof in existence.
Great Cransley Hall
Grade 2 Listed, re-slating of the inner courtyard lean-to roof slopes.
Lloyds Bank in Bourne
The incorrect installation of vermin netting resulted in a re-slate using new slate mixed in with the reclaimed slate.
Main Contractor T and D Group
Jack Wills High Street Stamford shop
Re-slating of all the rear roof elevations.
Many holes in the roof as well as many patch repairs, time for a re-slate good for another 200 years.
St Stephen Church, Carlby
Re-slating of the Isle and porch.
Allexton Hall
​Part Re-slate of hall and outbuildings.
Hind Hotel, Wellingborough
Heritage lottery funded.
New Collyweston slate to the Front Elevation and reclaimed slate to the rear slopes.
Wadenhoe House Lord and Lady Birt
Total re-slate
Main Contractor Peel Restoration (non payment in full client)
Stamford Railway station
Grade 2 Listed building.
Total re-slate.
Elton Chapel
Re-slate
The Round Church, Cambridge
The Round Church, Cambridge
Re-slating in Cotswold slate.
Oakham Castle
Re-slating
Miscellaneous Smaller Projects
Smaller projects using new and reclaimed Collyweston slate.
Mine Development & Slate Production
Collyweston slate mine development and slate production.
Photos of Past Times
Old photos of the past.
