Thatched cottage
Introduction
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Thatched cottage
Image: © Natasha Ceridwen de Chroustchoff Taken: 17 Jun 2007
This dwelling combines several vernacular building styles in stone, slate, corrugated tin and, most unusually for the area, thatch. In fact the roof was thatched with straw (now reed) over a timber framework using a technique — straw-rope underthatching —that is known in Britain only from a handful of Pembrokeshire and Cardiganshire buildings and an even smaller number in the Orkney Islands.Surviving examples of this technique are extremely rare. It was originally two C18 cottages that were abandoned in the 1950's and the quality of their restoration is highly laudable.
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Image Location
Latitude
51.913762
Longitude
-5.221437