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A History of the County of Huntingdon
… side of the brook. Some 17th-century houses of timber and thatch remained until recently, but they are rapidly …
A History of the County of Cambridge and the Isle of Ely
… was recorded in Great Shelford in the 1630s. 53 Old Thatch, a 17th-century building west of the church, was an …
A History of the County of Oxford
… of them in rows, are of the local ironstone, roofed with thatch or stone slate; they stand in box-hedged gardens … was probably part of the original Rickman or Boulton plan. Thatch, though common, was not ubiquitous, but in 1840 M. R. … respective merits of stone slate and expensively insured thatch, chose thatch after characteristically detailed …