Ellerby & Frame
Builders of considered homes
Nº 01 — The practice

Built once. Built properly.

Extensions, lofts and structural craft for homes that deserve better than quick. Leicestershire & the Midlands.

Selected works
02The standard

We build the parts of a house you only notice when they're wrong — and we build them so you never do.

Every Ellerby & Frame project is run by the same hands that quote it. One team from the drawings to the last course of slate — no subcontracted mysteries, no version of "done" that isn't ours.

0Years on the tools
0Projects complete
0Year guarantee
03Selected works

Quiet work, loud results.

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Sunset over re-slated terrace rooflines

The Terrace Row

Leicester · Re-roof
Restored Victorian villa

The Villa

Stoneygate · Restoration
New slate gable

The Gable

Oadby · Loft & roof
Finished family home approach

The Approach

Kibworth · Extension
Aerial of completed rear works

The Rear Works

Glenfield · Full works
Nº 04 — Case study

The Harborough re-frame.

i.

Survey

Every job starts in the air and on the ground — a full structural survey before a single price is spoken.

ii.

Strip & frame

The roof comes back to honest timber. What's sound stays; what isn't goes — no burying problems under new slate.

iii.

Slate, by hand

Welsh slate, copper-nailed course by course. Slow is smooth; smooth is a roof that outlives its builder.

iv.

Lead & detail

Flashings dressed by hand around every chimney and valley — the details water never finds a way through.

v.

Handover

Signed off, guaranteed for ten years, and photographed for the ledger. Job 411, done the only way we know.

05Materials

Chosen in daylight. Proven in the dark.

The stuff we build with, shown the way we check it — up close, under a lamp, before it ever touches your house.

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Welsh slate stack

Welsh slate

500-year stone
Milled lead roll

Milled lead

Dressed by hand
Copper fixings

Copper fixings

Never rust, never slip
“Three builders quoted us a price. Ellerby & Frame quoted us a reason for every number on it. Easiest decision we made.”
R. & S. Whitmore — The Villa, Stoneygate
Nº 06 — Begin

Some houses get builders.
Yours could get us.

A survey and an honest conversation cost nothing. Extensions, lofts, structural work — done once, done properly.