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...Why The house has abundant character with a distinctive thatched roof, country-style kitchen and wood-beamed ceilings and walls....
...What A large, thatched cottage with six bedrooms and four bathrooms....
...Even a small thatched cottage in the area costs nearly £500,000 — though a two-bedroom house in Longstock was reduced last month to £475,000....
...After several hazardous fires, the town banned traditional thatching, yet in May 1890 Van Gogh wrote how he found “the modern villas and middle-class country homes almost as pretty as the old thatched cottages...
...A convulsive force sweeps up the squat homes in “Thatched Cottages in Cordeville” into a similarly swirling design: roofs undulate against spiralling trees and curlicues of clouds....
...It has been much extended to total 3,800 sq ft and comes with a detached double garage and a one-bedroom annexed cottage....
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...Next year there are plans to expand onto a neighbouring plot, but currently Casa ML (as it’s known) comprises 12 rooms in the main house, a cottage that sleeps six, an outdoor swimming pool, a tennis court...
...And increased demand should lower the cost, given the ubiquity of straw and the fact that it was once the preferred roofing material for cottages across the UK....
...We wend past thatched cottages, stern medieval castles atop rocky hills, and along the 78km length of Lake Balaton, which sits on a volcanic soil bed....
...I raced down to view it, but it was unsuitable owing to a thatched roof. In the same village, I saw three dilapidated cottages knocked into one....
...With a tangle of winding streets and a couple of country pubs at its centre, towards the outskirts the thatched cottages and period homes give way to rolling farmland and large, detached properties on spacious...
...Anyone who has ever watched their last match gutter out while trying to light a fire of damp logs in a weekend cottage will sympathise....
...Due to open in late 2024, Nihi Rote will have 25 thatched villas with private pools and, in keeping with the original, it sits on a beach that the company claims offers “world-class” surfing waves year-round...
...What A two-bedroom, two-bathroom thatched cottage with just over 100 sq m of living space....
...Park in the carpark behind the Rock Pool Café to find the tidal pool Directions Mousehole’s tidal pool can be found in a charming historic fishing village full of narrow alleyways and cottages with thatched...
...The couple are already looking to upsize locally from their three-bedroom thatched cottage....
...You can see the sediment sweeping across the wild heathland, over thatched roofs and out into the North Sea....
...What A 2.2-hectare property with a 16th-century, five-bedroom house, a two-bedroom farmhouse and a one-bedroom thatched cottage. There’s also a helipad and anchorage for a boat....
...What Dating from the 1400s, this five-bedroom thatched home has more than 5,300 sq ft of interior space. It comes with nine acres, on which there is a pool, six-hole golf course, mill stream and pond....
...To either side were the ruins of a dozen blackhouses, thatched roofs long gone but the craftsmanship of the hand-hewn stone walls, beautifully rounded at the corners, still clear to see....
...GoldenEye is a mix of private lagoon-front villas, a hamlet of beach huts and a cluster of cottages – with room for close to 50 scattered amid the lush green plant life....
...More recently, the baton of managing the family’s hotels and holiday cottages has been passed on to their daughter-in-law, Laura Burlington, wife of their son, William....
...All the accommodations here, whether nestled in jungle or right at the Caribbean’s edge, are tents, with wood floors, thatched palapa roofs and outdoor showers....
...What A Grade II-listed, thatched house on 1.6 acres....
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