Only Building In Great Britain With A Thatched Roof

Loosely speaking thatching is the use of straw or grasses as a building material.

Only building in great britain with a thatched roof.

Thatched cottages and farm buildings were the norm in rural britain for a millennium or more. 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. As the normans conquered england and eventually integrated with the english their methods for thatched roofing became the standard. Using thatch for roofing goes back as far as the bronze age in britain.

The sixty and more properties here were described mainly as cottages cutts shedds or meane habitacons built with mud walls and thatched roofs in 1671 in a bid to stop this type of housing a proclamation forbidding unlicensed construction in wind mill fields dog fields and the fields adjoyning to so hoe came into effect. A thatched pub the williams arms at wrafton north devon england. At shearplace hall in dorset there are remains of a round hut that shows signs of thatching. Thatching and the norman era.