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Only building in great britain with a thatched roof.
Thatching and the norman era.
The normans were well known for roof thatching when they made their way to the british isles in the 11th century.
Thatched cottages and farm buildings were the norm in rural britain for a millennium or more.
Loosely speaking thatching is the use of straw or grasses as a building material.
Using thatch for roofing goes back as far as the bronze age in britain.
A thatched pub the williams arms at wrafton north devon england.
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.
At shearplace hall in dorset there are remains of a round hut that shows signs of thatching.