Medieval Thatched Roof

The building in the image is 6 10 meters.

Medieval thatched roof.

It turns out that clay roof tiles had their own name. Anne hathaway stratford upon avon thatched roof cottage farmhouse natural beauty medieval england bright country anne hathaway s cottage shottery near stratford upon avon england the cottage was the childhood home of shakespeare s wife anne the daughter of a yeoman farmer richard hathaway. Churches also used thatch frequently. Even more so on a windy hilltop five hundred feet 152m above the somerset marshes.

Much later in the late 18th century thatched cottages became an extremely popular theme with the picturesque painters who tried to portray an idealized romantic sanitized version of nature. Perhaps they cut reeds in the surrounding wetlands if so that meant carting four thousand or so bundles up the steep tracks to the hill fort. Thacktyle they were mentioned in london building codes as early as 1212 and were almost certainly in use earlier. Relating to the craft of thatching.

The reason we don t find these houses in archeological digs is that due to the fact that straw is a biodegradable material building constructed with it have quite a short lifespan once they are abandoned. The traditional thatched roof however was replaced by slate. That s a thirty foot 9m roof to thatch over. Thatching in the later middle ages thetchingsulver seggethakkers clerks a part from providing some of the most venerable thatched buildings to have come down to us the later medieval period has also left a goodly amount of written material.

The roofs of these houses were also built by using straw and other dry vegetation these roofs were used across many building types and are commonly known as thatched roofs. The tiles replaced extremely fire prone thatched roofs. Interiors incorporated such tudor style elements as decorative beamed ceilings arched doorways plaster walls and detailed wooden. But i never put clay roof tiles together with medieval england i assumed that roofs were thatch stone or slate.

A daunting prospect at the best of times. 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. In 1300 the great norman castle at pevensey sussex bought up 6 acres of rushes to roof the hall and chambers.