Only Building In Great Britain With A Thatched Roof

Using thatch for roofing goes back as far as the bronze age in britain.

Only building in great britain with a thatched roof.

At shearplace hall in dorset there are remains of a round hut that shows signs of thatching. Thatching is the craft of building a roof with dry vegetation such as straw water reed sedge cladium mariscus rushes heather or palm branches layering the vegetation so as to shed water away from the inner roof since the bulk of the vegetation stays dry and is densely packed trapping air thatching also functions. Thatched cottages and farm buildings were the norm in rural britain for a millennium or more. The normans were well known for roof thatching when they made their way to the british isles in the 11th century.

Loosely speaking thatching is the use of straw or grasses as a building material. Aside from the village s gorgeous thatched roof cottages visitors can see cockington court the manor house of the mallock family drum inn and the almshouses which consist of seven terraced cottages built during james i s reign. Only thatched roof in london check out tripadvisor members 59 572 candid photos and videos of london. A thatched pub the williams arms at wrafton north devon england.