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, ...

Hope Cove, Devon I need to go into the attic to check the timbers – an awkward job, but a chance to get out of the wind An experienced thatcher told me early on in my apprenticeship: “You’ll learn to ...

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 ...

In England and Denmark, there are still entire villages of thatched houses. While it is expensive to thatch a roof in those countries, it is not prohibitively so, and the tradition of thatching is ...