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 ...

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, ...

Regarding the stone house with thatched roof in San Miguel de Allende [“A Labor of Luck,” Feb. 7]: How many hundreds of rats does Michele Connor or, better yet, her housekeeper estimate now are ...

You are able to gift 5 more articles this month. Anyone can access the link you share with no account required. Learn more. The answer is no. You don’t have to water a thatched roof (unless it’s of ...

The very first so-called mushroom home that Earl Young built in Charlevoix is being re-built with a special thatch roof. We’ve been showing you the progress on the project, and now that it’s nearly ...

DeWITT, Iowa — Onlookers have been rather common this summer in DeWitt’s Lincoln Park, where a 19th century German hausbarn is being rebuilt with a combination of new and original materials. But ...

Researchers conducted a special fire test to learn how to protect steep thatched-roof farmhouses that emerged more than 250 years ago to ruggedly withstand Central Japan's heavy winter snowfalls.