OUGHTERARD, Ireland – The house where Denis Geoghegn was born still stands, right next to his own, and the ceiling still looks like it’s smeared with black mud and grass, which it is. There are two ...

Building a thatched roof for my hut involved over 35 willow branches, approximately 200 fan palm leaves, and over 500 feet of rope and cordage. With this major task complete, I can now focus on other ...

Thatched roofs may be synonymous with traditional architecture, but this roundup points to a revival of the age-old craft in contemporary buildings across the globe. Used to create thick, insulating ...

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, ...

How does a thatch roof work and why don’t they leak? When visiting northern Uganda last week, I asked a wise soul, whose name was Francis, how a thatch roof actually worked. Francis’s nephew, Erick, ...

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 answer is no. You don’t have to water a thatched roof (unless it’s of the living variety). But that one’s among the many questions Jon Meek fielded when his wife, Deborah, and he first listed this ...

At the Donegal Thatching School, master thatchers teach their skills to help preserve Ireland's long tradition of thatched-roofed cottages A new school in Ireland is training up a fresh generation of ...