Thatch is a roofing material made of dry plant stalks, typically water reed, straw, rushes or palm fronds, layered thickly and tied to a roof structure to shed water without cladding or membrane. It has been used for vernacular roofing on every inhabited continent, and its steep pitch, ordinarily forty-five degrees or more, is essential to its water-shedding performance, since a shallow thatched roof holds moisture and rots. Well-maintained water reed thatch can last several decades, and though it has largely been displaced by manufactured roofing in modern construction, it survives as a conservation and heritage material, notably on traditional cottages in England and rural dwellings across Africa and Southeast Asia.
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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.
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Thatching methods have traditionally been passed down from generation to generation and numerous descriptions of the materials and methods used in Europe over the past four centuries survive in archives and early publications.
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an ornate thatched roof
The Ice House, Great Yarmouth (Wikipedia)
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The building consists of gault brick under a half-hipped thatched roof
Chard Museum (Wikipedia)
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The museum is housed in a 16th-century thatched building which was originally four cottages.
Ise Grand Shrine (Wikipedia)
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The shrine buildings are made of solid cypress wood and use no nails, instead being joined with wood.
The Priest's House, Muchelney (Wikipedia)
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The thatched stone building is rented to a tenant and has limited public access.
Stembridge Mill, High Ham (Wikipedia)
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The stone tower mill was built in 1822 with four floors and a thatched "cap".
Baileo (Wikipedia)
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It is traditionally built from local materials such as planked timber, cement, stone or brick with wood shingle, and thatch or zinc roof.
Kasubi Tombs (Wikipedia)
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It was originally constructed from wooden poles, reed wattle and daub, topped by a thick thatched dome, with straw resting on 52 rings of palm fronds (representing the 52 traditional clans of the Baganda people).
Cahokia - Wikipedia
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Cahokian domestic structures were generally of pole-and-thatch construction and followed rectangular footprints.
All Saints' Church, Billockby (Wikipedia)
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It is of flint with ashlar dressings, and has a thatched roof; the interior includes an octagonal 15th-century font.
Loughwood Meeting House (Wikipedia)
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The building is of stone rubble with buttresses and a thatched roof.
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