S ure, hot pot is a meal where you’re paying a restaurant for the privilege of cooking your own food, but somehow, that’s the ...

Homeowners can apply to their local planning authority for permission to change the material of their thatched roof. Historic England have a statutory role in the planning system and local ...

Seven Hampshire fire crews rushed to Warsash to surround a blaze at a thatched roof cottage tonight, and more will stay overnight as the incident continues to be scaled down. Crews from Hightown ...

A thatcher who has a three-year waiting list for his services said a shortage of straw has caused problems for his industry. Chris Dodson, who runs a thatching company based in Sawtry, Cambridgeshire, ...

This is the 39th time it has been held. At 5:30 p.m., 108 lights lit up 32 thatched roofs, and the beautiful gassho-zukuri style houses emerged. Visitors were amazed by the enchanting scene in the ...

Supplies of straw for thatched roofs are low due to three poor harvests, says a thatcher A thatcher with a three-year waiting list for his services said a shortage of straw had caused problems for ...

The Oxford Mail's chosen Property of the Week this week is a grade II listed thatched cottage just 10 miles from Oxford. Farthinge cottage, located in Newington near Stadhampton, dates from c1650 ...

"I quite often find thatching tools in the roof, which a previous thatcher might have forgotten about and thatched over. "We usually find newspapers shoved in there so the next guy can pre-date ...

One of London’s largest and oldest thatched roofs, on a 15th-century Tithe Barn, is currently being removed and replaced with fresh thatching as part of a large restoration project. Upminster tithe ...

When 108 lights were turned on at 5:30 p.m. on Jan. 13, 32 houses with steeply pitched thatched roofs, including the national important cultural property Wada House, appeared between the contrast ...

The first phase of restoration includes re-thatching the roof, plus repairs to structural timbers and historic brickwork.