Roche: a clean modern upgrade for china-clay heritage terraces
By Cornwall Composite Doors · 15 August 1969 · 4 min read
Roche's cottages, built during the china-clay boom, take particularly well to a modern anthracite grey composite door.
A village shaped by the clay industry
Roche grew up alongside the china-clay works that still define this part of mid-Cornwall, and its housing — modest terraces and cottages built for clay workers, close to landmarks like Roche Rock — reflects that industrial history. PL26 properties here are generally plainer and more functional in their original detailing than the ornate Victorian terraces you'd find in a market town, which suits a clean, modern door style particularly well.
Why anthracite grey has become the default here
Anthracite grey has become the clear favourite in Roche, and it's easy to see why: it suits the plain, functional lines of the village's original terraced housing, matches the grey window frames fitted to most recently updated properties, and gives a smart, contemporary lift without looking incongruous against the older brick and stone.
What we typically fix
Roche jobs are usually straightforward replacements of ageing 1980s or 90s uPVC doors that have lost their seal integrity or developed sagging hinges, rather than the bespoke sizing challenges we deal with in older harbour villages. That keeps quoting and fitting relatively quick and predictable here.
Covered on our St Austell area round
Roche sits close to Bugle and St Columb Major, and we cover all three on the same round as St Austell, so scheduling and lead times here are consistent with the wider area.
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