Only Thatched Roof In Brittan

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Only thatched roof in brittan.

Combed wheat might stand for 20 to 40 years ad long straw will reach 15 to 25 years. It s called thatching an ancient craft that remains virtually unchanged. Welcome to spindle house. T he later neolithic peoples changed the face of their world dramatically with the cultivation of crops for food and thatch.

Handcrafted with beautiful sweeping handrails and a timber constructed roof as standard the spindle house thatched gazebo is admired by many and makes the perfect. Only with this dedication can the spindle house thatched gazebo continue to be the best produced in the uk. Using thatch for roofing goes back as far as the bronze age in britain. Most thatch used in england is made of long wheat straw grown specially for the purpose.

Thatched popularity in england already reached almost 35 000 properties. But as 21st century buyers build second homes in the countryside they often choose to have the older rustic look thatching gives. A thatched pub the williams arms at wrafton north devon england. Loosely speaking thatching is the use of straw or grasses as a building material.

In britain this change in lifestyle began around six and a half thousand years ago. Most thatched roof houses in the british isles are remnants of an earlier time dating to the 19th century or even as far back as the 16th. It s hard to get more retro than a house covered with straw but in england thatched roofs a tradition of eras gone by have become a cool desirable home amenity. After about 40 to 50 years the top layer is stripped off and replaced.

The straw is built up in layers. 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. The original thatched roof is attached directly to the roof timbers. Occupation sites are known for the first part of this period traces of oblong buildings being found.

2 metre spindle house. Thatched cottages and farm buildings were the norm in rural britain for a millennium or more. Most of the reed used in british thatched roofing today is imported usually from hungary. Bundles of reeds are fixed to the timbers angled downwards at about 20 then piled on top of each other so that the final angle of the roof edge is between 45 and 50.

A roof thatched by a skilled craftsman can last 40 to 50 years without needing refurbishment all the while providing excellent watertight insulation. At shearplace hall in dorset there are remains of a round hut that shows signs of thatching.