Aside from the village s gorgeous thatched roof cottages visitors can see cockington court the manor house of the mallock family drum inn and the almshouses which consist of seven terraced cottages built during james i s reign.
Only building in great britain with a thatched roof.
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.
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.
At shearplace hall in dorset there are remains of a round hut that shows signs of thatching.
A thatched pub the williams arms at wrafton north devon england.
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Thatching and the norman era.