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  2. Thatching - Wikipedia

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    A law passed in 1640 in Massachusetts outlawed the use of thatched roofs in the colony for this reason. Thatch is lighter than most other roofing materials, typically around 34 kg/m 2 (7 lb/sq ft), so the roof supporting it does not need to be so heavily constructed, but if snow accumulates on a lightly constructed thatched roof, it could ...

  3. Historic Villages of Shirakawa-gō and Gokayama - Wikipedia

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    Even today, there is still a system of joint work called "yui" for re-thatching thatched roofs of gassho-zukuri. The thatch replacement was done every 30 to 40 years, and the labor and expense involved was enormous (simply converting the labor cost to today's value, it is said that the cost to replace one side of the roof alone would be more ...

  4. Listed buildings in Raby, Merseyside - Wikipedia

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    A stone house with a thatched roof in a single storey with attics and two bays. It contains two doorways and casement windows, those in the attics in eyebrow dormers. To the left is a two-bay single-storey stone outbuilding with a slate roof. [9] Stanacres

  5. Groups of Traditional Buildings - Wikipedia

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    Villages with irrigation channel rice farming along the Kumanoue River valley in the Minō Mountains. The villages contain houses with thatched yosemune style [note 9] roofs as well as irimoya style tile-roofed houses that gained popularity starting in the Meiji period.

  6. Listed buildings in Mackworth, Amber Valley - Wikipedia

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    The original part of the cottage is timber framed with lath and plaster infill, and is roughcast, the later part is in roughcast red brick, and the roof is thatched. The original part has two storeys and attics, and two bays, an open porch with a thatched roof, casement windows, and eyebrow dormers. The later part has two storeys, and the ...

  7. Blackhouse - Wikipedia

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    The Gearrannan Blackhouse Village in Garenin is an example of blackhouses being converted into holiday accommodation. The blackhouses on Lewis have roofs thatched with cereal straw over turf and thick, stone-lined walls with an earthen core. Roof timbers rise from the inner face of the walls providing a characteristic ledge at the wall head ...

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