Thatch

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.

an ornate thatched roof

The building consists of gault brick under a half-hipped thatched roof

The museum is housed in a 16th-century thatched building which was originally four cottages.

The house was built in 1845 made from wood and thatch and reconstructed in 1849.

Anglo-Saxon secular buildings in Britain were generally simple, constructed mainly using timber with thatch for roofing.

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.

The traditional style is distinct in its usage of mud/laterite soil, rocks, thatch, palm, reeds, etc.

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.

English Heritage defines the term as "A rustic building of picturesque design." Cottages ornés often feature well-shaped thatch roofs with ornate timberwork.

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.

The roof covering is of thatch that is sewn to the poles with grass rope.

The shrine buildings are made of solid cypress wood and use no nails, instead being joined with wood.

The thatched stone building is rented to a tenant and has limited public access.

The stone tower mill was built in 1822 with four floors and a thatched "cap".

It is traditionally built from local materials such as planked timber, cement, stone or brick with wood shingle, and thatch or zinc roof.

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).

Cahokian domestic structures were generally of pole-and-thatch construction and followed rectangular footprints.

It is of flint with ashlar dressings, and has a thatched roof; the interior includes an octagonal 15th-century font.

The building is of stone rubble with buttresses and a thatched roof.