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, ...

Tithe Barn in Upminster was built in about 1450, while King Henry VI was on the throne, Historic England said Work to restore a 15th century thatched barn in Upminster, east London has been completed.

Work has begun to rescue a 15th Century barn in east London from Historic England's Heritage at Risk Register. Tithe Barn in Upminster, which is one of the largest thatched barns in Britain at 44m ...

A restaurant in one of Weston-super-Mare's oldest buildings could get a new thatched roof. The Old Thatched Cottage, in Knightstone Road, dates back to the late eighteenth century and is the town's ...

One of London's medieval treasures gets a new roof. Upminster, to the far east of Greater London, is famous for precisely three things: its majestic windmill, its eyebrow-raising Tube decoration, and ...

Q. I have an 11-year-old house in Tewksbury I built myself. It has a hand-split, rough-sawn, cedar-shingle roof. When it was first installed, and every two to three years since, I have had Penofin ...

The building dates back to the late eighteenth century and has been a restaurant for 60 years A restaurant in one of Weston-super-Mare's oldest buildings could get a new thatched roof. The Old ...