Only Building In Great Britain With A Thatched Roof

As the normans conquered england and eventually integrated with the english their methods for thatched roofing became the standard.

Only building in great britain with a thatched roof.

The normans were well known for roof thatching when they made their way to the british isles in the 11th century. Thatching and the norman era. 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.

At shearplace hall in dorset there are remains of a round hut that shows signs of thatching. Using thatch for roofing goes back as far as the bronze age in britain. 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. A thatched pub the williams arms at wrafton north devon england.