Roofs crafted with layers of straw ... those in need of a thatcher judge one by their last few years’ work. There are more than 60,000 thatched properties in Britain today, of which two-thirds ...

Picturesque thatched roofs were once a common part of the cultural ... “Nevertheless, we were lucky and became acquainted with one of the last masters of this traditional building technology ...

A fire that ripped through the thatched roof of a thousand-year-old church ... was thought to be last surviving one of four that once served the area. Shaun Whitmore/BBC One villager described ...

SHIRAKAWA, Gifu Prefecture--Villagers in this renowned UNESCO World Heritage site came together to re-thatch the roof of a multitiered house here for the first time in five years on May 13.

That's because her white-walled cottage in Lisburn close to the M1 has a thatched roof. In the 1950s there were about 40,000 thatched buildings in Northern Ireland, but today there are fewer than ...