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Thoroton's History of Nottinghamshire
An Inventory of the Historical Monuments in Dorset
… N.W. are flint, greensand and cob for walls; timber and thatch for roofs. In all mediaeval churches the walls are of … chapels of 19th-century origin include the modest cob-and-thatch meeting-house built in 1807 at Cripplestyle in …
An Inventory of the Historical Monuments in Dorset
… buildings. Original roof-coverings were of stone-slate or thatch, although many buildings have been re-roofed with …
An Inventory of the Historical Monuments in the County of Cambridgeshire
… provided timber, field stones, clunch, carstone and thatch; limestones, alabaster, slate and lead are among the … material for roof covering in West Cambridgeshire is thatch or tile. Whilst no church in the area retains its thatch, in 1593 that at Arrington was described as lacking …
Ancient and Historical Monuments in the City of Salisbury
… with tile after the city council forbade the use of thatch in 1431. 99 The late 13th-century Bishop's Guildhall …
An Inventory of the Historical Monuments in the County of Cambridgeshire
… form. These roofs were probably designed to take thatch, the thickness of which is shown by the distance of … smaller houses before the 18th century roof-covering of thatch was the normal practice which continued into the 19th … after the early 18th century, often as a replacement of thatch. Mansard roofs were frequently covered with pantiles …
An Inventory of the Historical Monuments in Dorset
… cottages cob-built. The normal roofing of the district is thatch and a high proportion of rural buildings are still …
An Inventory of the Historical Monuments in Dorset
… see Dorset II, xl). Roof coverings. Until the 19th century Thatch was the normal roofing material of all but the most …