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.

Only building in great britain with a thatched roof.

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. Loosely speaking thatching is the use of straw or grasses as a building material. The normans were well known for roof thatching when they made their way to the british isles in the 11th century. 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.

Thatching and the norman era. 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. Using thatch for roofing goes back as far as the bronze age in britain. At shearplace hall in dorset there are remains of a round hut that shows signs of thatching.