Nestled among the lush gardenscape, the Smokehouse of Poggensee is a German cottage with a distinct silhouette, auctioning ...

GRASPING AT STRAWS is all the rage among a growing number of British homeowners, as Mark Phillips now shows us: When it comes to housing design, it's hard to get more retro than this: a thatched roof, ...

Thatched roofs may be synonymous with traditional architecture, but this roundup points to a revival of the age-old craft in contemporary buildings across the globe. Used to create thick, insulating ...

TYRINGHAM — When Joshua Williams and Shaun Mosley bought Santarella Gardens and its gingerbread house, they knew they had a mountain of repairs ahead of them. More than two years later, they still do.

Visitors to the historic mountain villages in central Japan marvel at the elegance of the steep thatched-roof farmhouses found there. Known as "gassho-zukuri," Japanese for "constructed like hands in ...

Extensive work is being carried out at the 19th Century cottage, but why is the site so important?

The oldest building in Weston-super-Mare has become an even more prominent seafront landmark thanks to the installation of a new thatched roof. The new feature has been carefully constructed, using ...

Building a thatched roof for my hut involved over 35 willow branches, approximately 200 fan palm leaves, and over 500 feet of ...

Donegal County Council’s award-winning Thatch Repair Grant Scheme has opened for applications. Now in its eighth year, the ...

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It’s pretty easy for Valjawan (Val) Deer to remember his palmetto thatching licence number.It’s ‘one’.That is because he was the first palmetto thatchist to be licensed in the United States, by the ...