DeWITT, Iowa — Onlookers have been rather common this summer in DeWitt’s Lincoln Park, where a 19th century German hausbarn is being rebuilt with a combination of new and original materials. But ...

I constructed a mud hut with a natural thatched roof. Combining walls and roofing created a durable, weather-resistant ...

The very first so-called mushroom home that Earl Young built in Charlevoix is being re-built with a special thatch roof. We’ve been showing you the progress on the project, and now that it’s nearly ...

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, ...

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.

Thatch roofs are normally 12 to 15 centimetres (five to six inches) thick, containing multiple layers of thatch. Slope or ...

Researchers conducted a special fire test to learn how to protect steep thatched-roof farmhouses that emerged more than 250 years ago to ruggedly withstand Central Japan's heavy winter snowfalls.

Kraus can only look at what's left to do right now. He's too sore to work on this house barn. I have *** little bit in my eye, my eye and in my back, Stephan is one of three Germans who were injured ...

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 ...

The building dates back to the late eighteenth century and has been a restaurant for 60 years A restaurant in one of Weston-super-Mare's oldest buildings could get a new thatched roof. The Old ...

Preserving the old craft of thatched roofs in exchange for access to more than 1,000 global heritage sites in Slovakia and abroad for next year. Picturesque thatched roofs were once a common part of ...

Council initially refused permission over fears it ‘would set a precedent for removal’ of such roofs Stock image: Getty A property owner who said she was “living in fear” after she could not get ...