Sydney · Inner West
The Inner West has Sydney's densest concentration of Victorian and Federation housing, which means parapet gutters, box gutters between terraces, original slate, and terracotta roofs that are now well over a century old.
Shared party walls make leaks a neighbourly matter — water entering above one terrace frequently originates on the roof next door, and access often needs to be arranged across two properties.
Newtown's terraces present the classic Inner West roofing problem: two narrow roof planes draining into a box gutter shared with the neighbours, with a rear skillion added at some point in the last century.
Marrickville combines Federation and interwar houses under terracotta with a large light-industrial pocket of metal deck roofs, and both are well represented in the work we do locally.
Leichhardt's housing runs from single-fronted terraces to substantial Federation homes, and the roofs reflect that range — parapet and box gutter arrangements on the terraces, complex hipped terracotta on the larger houses.
Balmain has some of the oldest surviving residential roofs in Sydney, including original slate and hand-formed metalwork, on tightly packed blocks with steep streets running down to the harbour.
Burwood pairs grand Federation and interwar homes on the leafy streets with a dense apartment and commercial core around the station.
Strathfield has an unusual concentration of large, architecturally detailed houses with correspondingly complicated roofs — multiple gables, turrets, deep valleys and long runs of ridge capping.
Annandale · Stanmore · Petersham · Dulwich Hill · Ashfield · Summer Hill · Rozelle · Lilyfield · Erskineville · Enmore
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