Only Building In Great Britain With A Thatched Roof

Thatching and the norman era.

Only building in great britain with a thatched roof.

A thatched pub the williams arms at wrafton north devon england. 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. 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. 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. Only thatched roof in london check out tripadvisor members 59 572 candid photos and videos of london. Thatched cottages and farm buildings were the norm in rural britain for a millennium or more. 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.