Derby is about 15 miles west of Mapperley, with the A52 Brian Clough Way linking it to Nottingham, and it marks the western edge of the places Patch Me If You Can lists. It is a big city, and its housing has been shaped by railways, industry and large waves of rebuilding.
Victorian Derby
Railways made the Victorian town. Opposite the station, the railway workers' cottages built in 1841 and 1842 on Calvert Street, Midland Place and Railway Terrace are Grade II listed, and Derby's sixteen conservation areas include a group the council calls Victorian Derby, from the Arboretum and Little Chester to Strutts Park and Hartington Street. Houses of this age have solid walls and often lath and plaster ceilings, so the work tends to be careful patch repairs, over-boarding ceilings that have sagged, and skimming to a smooth finish without losing period details.
Suburbs and new estates
In the 1920s and 1930s, slum clearance moved families out to new council estates in the suburbs, and building carried on at scale for about 30 years after 1945. Patch Me If You Can covers suburbs such as Allestree, Mickleover, Chaddesden, Spondon and Alvaston, along with newer estates at Boulton Moor and The Pastures in Mickleover. In those homes the work might be re-skimming a living room, plasterboarding a ceiling, building a stud wall or a media wall, or fitting wall panelling.
All indoor plastering is covered. Call 07877 353120, seven days a week between 7am and 5pm.
