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 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.
Aguinaldo Shrine (Wikipedia)
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The house was built in 1845 made from wood and thatch and reconstructed in 1849.
Anglo-Saxon architecture (Wikipedia)
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Anglo-Saxon secular buildings in Britain were generally simple, constructed mainly using timber with thatch for roofing.
Yoruba architecture (Wikipedia)
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Building styles resembled those of the Ashanti, including construction from earth, wood, palm oil and straw bolstered by timber frameworks and roofed with thatched leaves and wood, or later aluminum and corrugated iron.
Igbo architecture (Wikipedia)
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The traditional style is distinct in its usage of mud/laterite soil, rocks, thatch, palm, reeds, etc.
Maneaba (Wikipedia)
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A maneaba is typically a structure formed of a high coconut wood roof supported by coral, held together with coconut string, and thatched with pandanus leaves.
Cottage orné (Wikipedia)
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English Heritage defines the term as "A rustic building of picturesque design." Cottages ornés often feature well-shaped thatch roofs with ornate timberwork.
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Characteristic elements include front and end gables, steep thatched roofs with a span of about six meters, and thick rubble, clay, or soft-brick walls, plastered and limewashed.
Rondavel (Wikipedia)
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The roof covering is of thatch that is sewn to the poles with grass rope.
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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