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, ...
How does a thatch roof work and why don’t they leak? When visiting northern Uganda last week, I asked a wise soul, whose name was Francis, how a thatch roof actually worked. Francis’s nephew, Erick, ...
A part-thatched home in Stamullen is also part built of packed earth The thatch half and adjoining 20th-century wing of Saint Bernadette’s Dave and Rachel The kitchen and breakfast bar A reception ...