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[@101steel4]

A thatched roof will outlast a Standard American roof by many decades.

[@truckerfromreno]

Centuries.

[@margaretphare3157]

You call on a "Thatcher" to repair the thatched roof.

[@annfrancoole34]

Its a very skilled craft 4/5 years training,

[@user-gt2ud2gw9e]

I was going to answer your question about repairing thatched rooves, however I see your other subscribers have already beaten me too it. To add to their comments, yes, when I cycled round the country, I often would see professional thatchers maintaining exquisit rooves, and they are both engineers and artisans. In the South East Weald, you mentioned about altering the appearance of the oast houses. Remember, in protected areas, you simply can't do as you please, and dependant on the grading of the area, some of the preservation statutes are ferocious.! Heaven help you if your "renovations" havnt met the approval of the authorities - I hope you've got plenty of money to pay the fine.!!

[@dianeshelton9592]

@@user-gt2ud2gw9ethough you would be more likely to be compelled to make it look as it was AND pay a fine.

[@Lily33McC]

The thatched roofs are waterproofed and they last around 26 years before needing restoration work!

[@keefsmiff]

I like any Cider 😊

[@markdermody9698]

The thatched roof tends to last 70-100 years and if done correctly shouldn't need repairing until it's end of life. The nature of the Reed makes them waterproof but the thickness and density of reeds help add to the waterproofing of these grooves.

[@pershorefoodbanktrusselltr3632]

Yes, it it’s extremely expensive.

[@Aloh-od3ef]

I would recommend you watch a video about how thatched roofs are made. I think you would very much enjoy it 😊

[@jillbarnes199]

I was going to say the same thing lol

[@michaelayling8855]

Thatch roofs don't leek and they last longer than shingles which have a life span of 15 years.

[@user-vh7uo2su3h]

You do not repair a thatched roof, you hire a thatcher to do it for you!!. It is very skilled work. Some colleges in the UK have courses which teach you these traditional crafts e.g. dry stone walling, hedge laying and stained glass work where you could learn. Here in Gloucestershire the former Prince of Wales (now Charles the Third) also enthusiastically encouraged these traditional crafts with the Prince of Wales Trust. Strict planning laws exist in the Cotswolds to make sure Cotswold stone is used, and the house owner does not have free hand to do whatever they want. It keeps a harmony within the whole village or small town. A cottage can be a big responsibility as 'improvements'' to a 'listed building' status cottage have to be passed by the local council. You are absolutely correct in thinking makes it look as if the houses just 'grew' out of their surroundings. That exactly the intention. Although I wasn't born here, I live in this area of the UK, I love it and feel glad that so many people like yourself appreciate its qualities too.😄😄

[@leohickey4953]

Whenever I think about the medieval way of life in England I'm fascinated by how locally fixed much of life was. For example, there's a story I heard about the C14th author Geoffrey Chaucer ( _The Canterbury Tales_ ). Chaucer lived most of his life in London, but in this story he was making a road trip to Dover on the Kent coast - a trivial journey in modern terms - and he stopped along the way to ask a local for directions. Evidently the man shook his head and replied "Sorry, sir, I don't speak any French" such was the difference between Chaucer's London English and his own Kentish dialect.

[@Jill-mh2wn]

The shade that looks the colour of `bubblegum` is called Suffolk Pink and was made centuries ago by adding ox blood to the lime wash to thicken it, believed to have been used from the 14th century. Very widely used in the County in which I live ,Suffolk in the East of England.

[@iangudgin6536]

Actually, this has recently been disproved as an urban myth. Usually, it's ground clay tiles and brick added to whitewash. It's never been ox blood. Think of the smell and you will know why.

[@AnneDowson-vp8lg]

Glad that someone mentioned Suffolk pink . I visit my sister in Suffolk regularly and love the pink cottages. In the 1930s in County Durham, my grandma knew a lady, who to earn money put up a notice which said 'Whitewashing - all colours '. I was also thrilled that Yorkshire Dales cottages were shown, as I am from Yorkshire. Connor is right, they really do look like they belong to the area and grow out of it. Sad that Welsh Slate was not mentioned, as it is such an important roofing material for so many cottages .

[@MrDaiseymay]

@@iangudgin6536 PROBABLY RIGHT, BUT, WAY BACK THEN, WITH NO SANITORY SYSTEMS ETC , LIVING WITHOUT PONGS WAS UNKNOWN.

[@iangudgin6536]

@@MrDaiseymay That's not quite true either. My Mum grew up in a cottage on the Norfolk/Suffolk borders. They had an outside toilet and her Grandmother had been using it since she was a child. So back in the Victorian era

[@user-zu6ir6kj5g]

I don't think our idea of the "cottage" gets very far past our borders, to be honest. The equivalent in most of the World is just a rural dwelling places - often of necessity, pretty shabby. There's lots of good stuff online about thatching. Beautiful, but really costly to maintain/replace. Regarding oast houses - "do you have to keep that top bit?", really slayed me. It perfectly encapsulated the difference between Brits and Americans!

[@zeideerskine3462]

Actually, thatched roofing has been around for at least the Neolithic and probably a few millennia before that. If installed by master craftsmen, preferably on a halftimbered construction, thatched roofs last for a hundred years with minor sew ins very few decades. If you water them in the summer, they are fireproof and offer natural air conditioning. The inside walls of such cottages are usually daub and wattle. This is actually outstanding building technique that has been around since the dawn of time.

[@jeanbicknell7887]

YOU wouldn't repair a thatched cottage Connor you would employ a craftsman to do that and fire insurance is very expensive too. Hence, it is people who tend to have a few bob who own them.

[@MarkmanOTW]

Just to clarify for our American and other overseas friends - 'a few bob' is a colloquial British term used to describe having a lot of reasonable/lot of money. It's a typically understated way to say someone is wealthy. 'Bob' was the slang term used to describe shillings, which were part of the Imperial currency used in the UK pre 1971, when the British currency decimalised changing the coins and simplifying it to 100 pence in a pound. FYI in the 'old money' there were 20 shillings in a pound. The saying 'a few bob' however continued to be used by the older generation and somewhat carried on and used in a casual way, gradually diminishing over the decades since.

[@lyndarichardson4744]

The cottage you called ginger bread is a house called Little Hall. It's in Lavenham, Suffolk. One of the photos of a line of coloured cottages was in the same town.

[@gabbymcclymont3563]

All you need to know about a thached roof is the number of a good thatcher. You would never see to it yourself and they need replaced about every 25 years. They breath so mold is no problem and rain just falls off them. In Scotland we call cottages Shortbread tin cottages rather than Chocolat box cottages for obvious reasons. I have lived in one cottage with 1/3 1k years old, it was 1/2 timbered. It had been 2 rooms a everything room and sleeping above it had a huge inglnook fire. The dinningroom had been the barn it had stone all around the bottom and 2 close beams on the long lenth of the room, for pushing the hay down. The last room was the old hay loft. It was stunning. Our friend came to visit from Surrey his mother and father came to collect him. It was crazy his mother recognised the village and our cottage. She had been evacuated to stay in our cottage during WW2, small world.

[@Gillie51-bl8su]

One style of cottage that she has totally left out, is a cob cottage. Most often found in the South West. My parents bought one when they moved from London to Devon in preparation for retirement. Cob is basically clay mud mixed with straw... Also a lot of the buildings she showed us were not cottages. Cottages are small!

[@enemde3025]

You don't repair a thatched roof yourself. It's a highly crafted job and needs an experienced THATCHER to do it. The village I work near has just had 2 cottages re-thatched. Thatched cottages are expensive to insure because of the danger of fire. The COTSWOLDS are nowhere near DEVON . We don't call them SHINGLES. We call them TILES or SLATES depending on what they are made from. Shingles is a disease caused by the same virus that causes chickenpox. Especially in older people.

[@brigidsingleton1596]

It may be true that older people catch / develop shingles, but the first time I had shingles, it developed around my waist when I was twelve (having had chickenpox at the age of nine - when I was the youngest bridesmaid of three to my three-months pregnant half-sister!!) Next I caught it aged thirty-eight, on my right shoulder and back, when my firstborn child was two years old - and hadn't at that stage caught chickenpox! I haven't had shingles since, but my daughter, now thirty-six herself has had shingles twice. It used to be said that shingles could only be caught once, but that's obviously a myth! It's a itchy (at first) then rather painful condition, and as am now seventy, I'm rather hoping I won't develop it again! 🥺🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿😐🇬🇧❤️🖖

[@arnoldarnold4944]

Can you catch that on a shingle beach?

[@brigidsingleton1596]

@@arnoldarnold4944 Possibly...if you can catch chickenpox there?!

[@clairenoon4070]

Langridge near Bath to Upottery in Devon is about 60 miles as the crow flies. I'd hardly call that 'nowhere near'.

[@Carole.P]

Shingles is in the same family as Chicken Pox 😊

[@joshcrawford4076]

The life expectancy is decades for a thatched roof. If any problems then you call up an experienced "Thatcher" to repair it. It's a great natural insulation aswell, very rarely you get mould or trapped condensation as the top holds the most moisture from rain and airs out pretty much straight away. Great cottages ☺️

[@paulkemp4559]

The word “Cottage” originates from England where they were very common in the English countryside. Early cottages contained a ground floor, with the roof space being used for bedrooms. Cottages were built during the Middle Ages for farmers and their families. They were small abodes, often being referred to as “huts”. These farmers were known as “cotters” which means peasant farmer. During this period, referring to a cottage meant a small farmhouse with accompanying land, but we now use the word to mean a type of house.

[@stuartfitch7093]

We call it a porthole window because it's round like a ship's porthole window. Many houses in the UK have a porthole window. I have one in my semi detached house, in the hallway.

[@adventussaxonum448]

A lot of those "cottages" are quite huge farmhouses or small manors. As for styles, my favourite was always the brick and flint mix,(with or without thatch) found in chalk downlands, such as Wessex and the Chilterns.

[@bryanmuirden1886]

Connor, I think you would be fascinated by the late great Jack Hargreaves who made two TV series in the 1970's and 80's called Out of Town and Old Country. These showed aspects of English country life that were dying out. Quite a few are on Y.T.

[@chixma7011]

Nice video, Connor. “Cotswolds!” Re using the local stone to build housing, I lived in a couple of Victorian cottages that were originally ‘unfit for human habitation’ having been abandoned for many years, but we renovated them, knocked through and turned them into one house. This was in Norfolk where the local stone is flint. There’s always at least one flint wall on a Norfolk cottage. We turned the 2 front doors into windows and put a new front door into the side elevation. This was one of the flint gable walls and we were lucky to have Wally on our builder’s team, a specialist in repairing flint walls. Watching him pick out the right stone for the available space from the pile at his feet was fascinating. That new front door looked like it had always been there. Norfolk cottages also have a normal looking roof at the front and a much deeper roof at the back. The upper rear rooms were 12 feet high at the side that was in the centre of the house and only 4 feet high at the outside wall, with the window sill at lower shin height. The roof was made of red clay pantiles, which are a wavy style and interlock. We also found out, when the very lumpy upstairs ceilings were pulled down, that there was a deep layer of straw in the roof space above them. Victorian insulation in action. The ground floor was laid with clay pamment tiles. We needed to line the floors for damp proofing so we had to lift them. They were laid straight onto the earth which contained some animal bones and broken clay pipes. The pamment tiles went to my in-laws who lived next door but one (!) and they built a patio with them against their brick and flint garden wall. They also took the two winding staircases from each end of the house (we replaced them with one central set of stairs) and cobbled them together to replace the ladder that accessed a storage mezzanine in their double garage - which used to be the cart shed and the apple loft for their Georgian house. There are reclamation yards all over Norfolk, indeed all over the country, where you can find replacement roof tiles, period downpipes, vintage bathroom fittings or cast iron Victorian fireplaces (I bought 2 for the front bedrooms) that have come from buildings that had to be demolished. Nothing gets wasted!

[@joshua.910]

"Interior architect" she's a painter and decorator 😂

[@tripletrouble7345]

From their homepage: BA(Hons) Interior Architecture and Design, Falmouth University

[@catbevis1644]

I've also seen small brick terraced houses (row houses) being called cottages if they're of a suitable vintage. And those can be in towns, not just the countryside. I think the term cottage is used more to describe a sense of snug and humble domesticity- it's a feeling, an idea, a nostalgia, rather than a specific type of building. Certainly any large building calling itself a cottage (and you do see them) is basically on a par with Marie Antionette's Petit Trianon. I agree I love that old buildings seem like they "belong" because they're built of local stone (types of thatch can also vary by region, whether just the type of thatch used or even the particular patterns/styles created). In some places around old castles you will see whole areas built to "match" the castle's stone... basically over the centuries as bits have crumbled off the castle, the locals stole the rubble to build their homes with! In my coastal area, the old people joke that the whole town used to have their garden fences painted dark grey, because all the locals nicked "gunmetal grey" paint from the Navy (I'm sure the Navy must have noticed?!).

[@lorraineyoung102]

As has already been mentioned you were not wrong with regard to the skill required for Thatching. Its most definately a craftsmans role! I live within walking dustance of two thatched cottages which have had the thatch replaced in recent years I've lived in the village for the last 40 years and don't remember either being re-thatched when I was younger! Its amazing to watch these skilled professionals at work!

[@edean75]

Living in the Yorkshire Dale's we have lovely cottages and she did a good reflection of different types.

[@pathopewell1814]

I was brought up in a cottage. Coal fire, no other heating etc. No electricity or hot water. Ice on all interior windows in winter. Very low beamed ceilings, my six foot father used to catch his helmet (he was a policeman), on the wretched beams all the time. Paraffin lamps and stone floors.....I could go on. We were happy but cold! This was the local police house in our village. The lavatory was down a long garden, traumatic in the winter. No drains or cess pits😢😢Definitely not chocolate boxy.😮😮

[@mikeymikeFTypeV6]

My place is described as a cottage. It’s end of terrace,slate roof and built 1890 . Possibly cottage just comes from homes built for the workers on the estate.

[@johnevans2044]

The lady in the video omitted to mention two other sorts of building material used to constuct cottages. Firstly cob, which is effectively clay mixed with straw. Cob buildings are most often found in the southwest of England.They usually have thatched roofs that overhang the walls to keep the rain off the cob. The walls of these cottages can be two feet thick or more, which keeps the inside warm in the winter and cool in the summer. Secondly, in Norfolk, in the east of England, you will find cottages made from flint stones cemented together. Flint is a hard silicate rock that forms in nodules in chalk rocks; these nodules are abundant in some parts of Norfolk, where there is little other building stone available. The builders of flint cottages often didn't bother to square off the flints (though they did when they used them to construct churches); this gives the cottages an attractive, quirky, pebbly look that is very distinctive.

[@stephenlee5929]

As many have said, Thatched roof is long lasting, robust, unlikely to need repair, no maintenance for the owner, until replaced, ridges after maybe 15 years, whole roof maybe 40? They are more of a fire risk. What I don't think most people have mentioned, is they tend to house spiders, not dangerous, but many townies can be put off by them.

[@lizstratton9689]

When my husband and I married we bought a beautiful chocolate box cottage (about 1900). It would have been lived in by a tenant worker for the farm or possible manor house. It had been renovate to have a bathroom (down stairs). The fireplace still held the bread oven, we had a coal store. We left when our 2nd child was on the way. Steep stairs, wooden dusty beams, poor insulation and low ceilings... but it was beautiful.

[@martynadams2011]

One building method that was not discussed is the use of ‘Cob’. This is literally building in mud from the ground the house is built upon. It’s amazingly resilient and attractive. I lived in a 15th Century Cob cottage with walls 3ft thick giving great insulation. Investigate - it’s fascinating technology.

[@stewedfishproductions9554]

Just to clarify: With regards to the Cotswolds ROOFS (not rooves, often used by an American) - they are NOT the usual UK roof tiles made from Welsh slate! They are made from either thatch or (more usually), Cotswold STONE slate, thus the limestone created from sedimentary ROCK. This is different from the commonly used (Welsh quarried) SLATE used throughout Scotland, Wales and England for the majority of roofs! 🤔 😂 - Just saying and teaching. 😎 👍👍👍

[@dgse83]

Thatched cottages were banned in London to prevent fire, and an act of parliament was required to provide exemptions - this was done when the restored Shakespeare's Globe Theatre was built in 1997, and as such has a naturally-built thatched roof in Bankside.

[@petereastwood1]

I was thinking, " Is my home a cottage or a house"? Then I remembered it's called 'Gardeners Cottage' and I then remembered why I'm not a successful genius.

[@pfffetc6149]

🤣

[@juliajoyce4535]

Those brightly coloured timber houses and the house you said looked like a gingerbread house are in the village of Lavenham, The historic village of Lavenham, in Suffolk, was also used to create Godric's Hollow in Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows

[@productjoe4069]

On the materials thing, where I grew up (the Chiltern Hills, the next area of outstanding natural beauty east of the Cotswolds) is chalk with overlays of clay. Our cottages (we have a lot!) are therefore brick and flint. They’re a bit more aggressive looking than the Cotswolds ones, but I like them.

[@dgse83]

There are of course cottages in London, as the urban growth enveloped areas of farmland and their ancient settlements survive - Hampstead and Highgate have fabulous collections of cottages, as do areas of Croydon, Bromley and Bexley that would have originally been part of the neighbouring shires.

[@peterdubois4983]

I lived in Saffron Walden in a timer Framed cottage. 400 years plus years old. One of the nicest places I have lived in. Now i live in Spain. Totally different lifestyle.

[@johnevans2044]

The "brick shingles" you talked about are actually clay tiles. We don't use the term "shingles" here in the UK, except perhaps in the rare cases where the roof is actually made from wooden shingles. But yes, the tiles are sort of "bricks" in the sense that they are made from fired clay in the same way that bricks are. In the east of England many buildings are roofed with wavey shaped tiles called pantiles; this shape originated from the Netherlands just across the North Sea. You'll see that many of the Cotswold stone cottages and Yorkshire stone cottages are roofed with tiles too, but these tiles are made from the same kind of stone as the walls of the cottages. Tiles can also be hung on walls. In Kent and Sussex in the southeast of England you can see buildings that appear to be made of overlapping bricks but they are actually wooden structures clad with clay tiles made to look like the faces of bricks. These are called "mathematical tiles".

[@TerryD15]

Cottages in England are basically small workers houses in a rural setting, either individual cottages near to the workplace such as a farm or estate of a large manor, or as part of a small rural village. The style of building does not define one. Mostly they housed farmworkers, but also there were 'cottagers', lucky enough to own their own property, who were individually employed, perhaps in a trade such as weaving or spinning, perhaps in woodworking. However, most traditional cottages were owned by estates or farms and the cottage was tied to the job, usually the worker lived rent-free, but when too old to work, or injured etc the worker would have to leave to make way for the next labourer or worker to take his or her place. During the industrial revolution many small houses were built by the owners for their workers, it was particularly prevalent for railway workers who often needed to live near rural stations. Again, these would be tied properties.

[@t.a.k.palfrey3882]

You said, "It looks like it belongs there." That is a great observation. Having lived in the US earlier in my life, I found houses very homogeneous, whether in Seattle, Richmond, or Des Moines. In the UK there are stark differences between Leeds, Ipswich, Cheltenham, and Porthmadog or Aberdeen.

[@Scaleyback317]

That you can have so many birds and bats nesting in the roof of thatched properties is fantastic as the sun is going down and the birds and bats are out looking for food for their young. My family lived in one in Hampshire when I was a kid and there were sparrows, house martins, swalllows and swifts nesting under the eaves in the thatch itself and swooping all over the garden leading down to the brook and the copse taking insect in flight. The copse was full of thrushes, blackbirds, sparrows, linnets, blue tits and wood pigeon (some of which ended up on the dinner table due to my skilfull use of a catapult - along with the partridges and pheasants from the field behind the house. Not to mention the brook in those days teeming with trout. We'd wade in the brook and smash down a cricket bat on the surface of the water and up would float breakfast stunned (far more successful than trying to net one or hook one) Fond memories. I will say this about thatched cottages though, theye get very dusty very quickly inside the house.

[@billyo54]

This video, though it displays a wide variety of cottages, is oddly uninformative. While it shows the general exterior styles, we see nothing of the interiors, the fireplaces, the window frames, the ceilings, the often cramped living spaces and the draughty bedrooms. I lived in such cottages and, though beautiful to look at, was expensive to heat and maintain. Admittedly new materials for weatherproofing and insulation are very welcome, there is always the danger of losing the original look of the property. The original English cottage is a full-time job to maintain.

[@jackjames3190]

You should look up liberties department store in London - a Victorian take on the mock Tudor half timber look - it’s simply stunning.

[@oufc90]

7:12 The Cotswolds are mainly in Oxfordshire and Gloucestershire rather than Bristol and Devon

[@leannepentecost9580]

From what I understand a thatched roof can last 20 years and is fully weatherproof as it's installed by a professional thatcher. Wouldn't be surprised if thatch breathes better than some modern materials too. Bet the fire insurance is pricey though.

[@Loki1815]

I use a Thatcher for my roof, a Cooper for my barrels, a Tyler for the out buildings slate roofs, a Fletcher for my arrows flights and a Bowman for my..... yep, Bows, a Lorimer for all the metal bits and pieces for my Saddles and Bridles, a Smith for all my metal work, a Carpenter for my oak beams, a Cartwright, a Wheeler, an Archer, Barber, Bowman, Brewer, Carver, Cook, Draper, Farmer, Fisher, Forester, Fowler, Gardener, Hunter, Mason, Miller, Piper, Potter, Sadler, Sheppard, Skinner, Tanner, Taylor, Weaver, I won't tell you what my Butler does, ah Geezer!

[@InquisitiveBaldMan]

Thatched roofs are probably the best roof going. Massive insulation values, very quiet roofs, they last longer than most other methods. 30 years, but well maintained, 60 years isnt unusual. Its probably expensive to get the craftsman to do it though.

[@Wheelchairuser90]

Connor please watch a video on Lavenham in Suffolk. I live a couple of miles away. You’ll see your favourite timber framed buildings.

[@PhyllisGlassup2TheBrim]

*I* live in a cottage, It's made from brick with a slate roof. The style of cottage depends on age but also where it is. There's no stone to be had naturally where I live for instance. I live in the fens which is reclaimed land. There's good clay soil for making bricks though and Peterborough was known for its brickworks. "What does Cottager mean in history? a person who lives in a cottage. British. a rural worker; a labourer on a farm or in a small village."

[@dianeshelton9592]

Insulation wise most cottages do really well as the wall will me very thick. Cool in summer warm inn winter

[@cl7051]

The grey wooden house with the circular window that you were not sure whether you liked was an example of an American cottage, she says that in the video. It is not an English cottage.

[@pershorefoodbanktrusselltr3632]

The thatch has been around for many thousands of years, the ancient Britons used thatch when under Roman occupation, so I don’t know why she thinks the French discovered it?

[@jillybrooke29]

We have flintstone cottages and buildings in East Sussex

[@lyndarichardson4744]

That was a very interesting video Connor, thanks for posting it. One disadvantage of thatched roofs is that they are more likely to catch fire!

[@ginacable5376]

Lovely to see you smiling at our little English tòwns and buildings .

[@TerryD15]

Thatch is made from reed stems which are waterproof and rarely need repair, but usually needs replacing every 50 or 75 years. They are very thick and do not 'leak' as the design sheds water quickly, the thickness is very insulating. If any maintenance is needed, it demands the services of a trained Thatcher. In Northamptonshire and East Leicestershire there is another outcrop of the same stone as in the Cotswolds, but is not so famous. The wooden house with strange roofs and circular is not a 'cottage' nor is it English, it looks more American, it is way too large to be a cottage. Most cottages had no services, such as water supply, sanitation, electricity or gas until modernisation in the mid 20th century, water would come from an external pump or well, sanitation would be a bucket, contents buried outside, heating and cooking was carried out over a fire and to contradict her, most cottages had a garden where vegetables and perhaps some fruit could be grown for the 'Cottager's' own use.

[@Langstrath]

She missed out the slate cottages common in North Wales and in the Lake District.

[@JJ-of1ir]

Enjoyed this one. Thanks

[@jjsmallpiece9234]

Cotswolds isn't the south west - it borders the south west, but is mostly in Oxfordshire Gloucestershire. The south west of the UK usually means Devon, Cornwall and Somerset

[@letheas6175]

So you like cottaging huh? Damn that word reminds me of that amazing dark series called ''Monkey Dust'' I still have such good memories of that series, it was so.. absurd but so good, damn.. (I was baked during it tho so sometimes I had to stop because it was too weird or I had no idea what was going on anymore, lol) darker than some of the darkest south park episodes for sure tho

[@colinharbinson8284]

'Cottaging', is probably grammatically ok. what she hasn't explained is that a cottage was originally a dwelling and small area of land worked by a 'Cotter'.

[@productjoe4069]

r/woosh ;)

[@fuzzywuzzy1756]

London does have thatched cottages in kingsbury

[@leohickey4953]

This approach to house building is called "vernacular architecture". The choice of building materials was based on what was available locally, and the overall style was passed from father to son over centuries. In older times, the men who built these houses would have rarely left their home county at all during their lifetimes, and it never would have occurred to them that there was another type of house being built a hundred miles away.

[@gmdhargreaves]

Thatchers are usually on around £100K but seasonal work and the work hard for 6 months then chill for 5 months❤

[@anitaherbert1037]

A water reed thatched roof will last 40 years though the ridge will need replacing every 20 years. I have seen one roof lasting to be replaced at 56 years.Fire is the only real problem but they can be sprayed with a retardant now.

[@user-gt2ud2gw9e]

Hi Jibby. You like grass, finely manicured. Google Coughton Court, Alcester (which is either Warwickshire or West Midlands). When can you move in!!!!?

[@neilbrooks5099]

The biggest difference between British homes and U.S homes is in the U.K. virtually all houses are built of brick or stone , in the u.s they’re mostly wood and drywall.

[@Janie_Morrison]

You're right

[@Janie_Morrison]

It's something that wants to look pleasant and nice you know when you find the right one

[@neilbrooks5099]

Conner if you like oldie worldie English homes look at videos of the town of rye.

[@QPRTokyo]

Cottages have been popular since the 1920’s at least. My grandparents lived in a real cottage. Yes it was once lived in by workers for the nearby “ big house “ My mother who was brought up in it, felt it to be claustrophobic. I loved it because it was not modified . For the average Brit a cottage is half timber with a thatched roof with roses. I lived in the country and we never called small terrace houses cottages. Only estate agents call small cramped houses cottages. 😂 😂😂😂😂😂. The so called Victorian cottages were called houses by local people. She sees a cottage, I see a house. I was shocked when the house I was brought up when sold was advertised as a cottage. I was told it was just estate agents BS. I guess I am just an old guy who was brought up in the countryside over sixty years ago and called a spade a spade. Her definition of a cottage would make my late 1980s house a cottage. 😂😂😂😂😂 Remember architects love to build ugly houses and apartments but live in 17th Century cottages. Well at least some modern architects want to bring beautiful designs back but alas so few.

[@judithhope8970]

What about whattle and daub? And Norfolk flint cottages? 😊

[@charlottehardy822]

She missed out Victorian terraced cottages, quaint red brick rows.

[@claregale9011]

Love a thatched cottage they are so lovely 😊.

[@Ariadne-cg4cq]

You don’t repair a thatched roof by yourself. You should call a “thatcher”.

[@phillippalee1966]

My brother lives in a thatched cottage. It is beautiful - but very dark inside and very expensive to manage.

[@OneTrueScotsman]

I've just moved out of a cottage and into a flat. It's a bit of a downgrade in some ways, but it's better in some ways because I'm almost in the centre of the town. Everything is within a very short walking distance. At the same time, it's a small town, so it's sans the violence and the gangs etc. The cottage I lived in was old, like 'old' old. Almost four centuries and I had to bend down to walk through the house. I'm 6'5 and the ceilings are 6 foot even. It also didn't get a lot of light because the windows are small. Although, the backyard is massive and there's gravestones dating back hundreds of years. And it's Scottish, so it's stone and pebble, rather than red brick built.

[@artrandy]

Many of these are manor houses, not cottages...........

[@weejackrussell]

What about Derbyshire long houses and Yorkshire and Lancashire weavers' cottages? Why weren't they mentioned?! The maker of this video has obviously not been to anywhere north of The Wash, probably ventured to Yorkshire once in her life! No mention of Welsh cottages or Scottish crofting cottages. I could give a longer list of what's missed out but I think these are enough examples to demonstrate how poor the range shown was.

[@sachaclulow9288]

I live in a fisherman's cottage small one level

[@judithrowe8065]

Thatched roofs are still popular, and thatching is a highly skilled job. The surnames Thatcher, Tiler/Tyler and Slater are all derived from the different craftsman who built roofs. Cottages in Kent are often faced with knapped flint. As homes for the poor, cottages were small and built in the vernacular style from local materials by craftsmen- no architects involved. Your idea of mashing different styles together is comical.

[@Janie_Morrison]

Looks like a Pixie House

[@hiramabiff2017]

I bet this gets lots of hits from gay men thinking it's a genuine guide.

[@DoctorAkikoFukuwara]

Brilliant 😂

[@robertchinnery9806]

I would never buy a house in the UK with a straw (reed) roof!

[@DarthShark99]

I've lived in a half timber and they're fine most of the year (pretty nice in the summer) but they can be expensive to heat in the winter. The insulation really isn't up to modern standards

[@ThornyLittleFlower]

3:24 hun straight away, you spotted the odd one out for you. You are awkward in social situations except for when you're not. You hate texting and replying to comments most of the time but have moments when you find the right words so text and I bet you feel really great when that happens cos it's rare. Yeah I feel ya. Don't know what we have a.d.h.d is part of it but I'm sure there's something else mixed in.

[@Janie_Morrison]

The look like something what Pixies and Elsa live in

[@Janie_Morrison]

House is the best better than a cottage

[@richardwest6358]

Bristol & Devon ARE NOT in the Cotswolds

[@cherylsemrau7100]

You should Escape to the Country.

[@Janie_Morrison]

Cotswold cottages will be absolutely a fortune she's trying to sell them onto people not for Media have fairer house

[@Janie_Morrison]

Fortune

[@helenc1693]

if you can afford a thatched cottage, you can afford someone to come and fix it for you, believe me, they cost a fortune

[@MrDaiseymay]

but don't confuse the expression, doing the cottages with a view to purchasing.

[@whitecompany18]

You should go cottaging when you visit👍

[@jeanbicknell7887]

Stop it! Connor is not ready for intermediate level slang yet.

[@edwardwoodstock]

Nope Connor, you don't want to do this 🙈

[@pv-mm2or]

Instead of " cement " why not just say limestone?

[@rosaliegolding5549]

Sorry Devon is nowhere near the Cotswolds which is south west England in the counties of Gloucester Oxford Worcestershire Somerset Wiltshire and Warwickshire AND SHIRE IS PRONOUNCED SHURR it’s the region where I live and Thatched Cottages are water proof and lasts for at least 20 or more years depending on and top ups are needed sometimes by qualified Thatcher and can cost up to £15, 000 or more as the size of cottage dictates .it was the Victorians that painted the wood black ( my preference is to leave it natural as it was built originally) AND NO CEMENT 😩😤PLEASE and most houses in that era sometimes could not afford brick only wood ,but I suppose you are looking at it from an American point of view but your in England it’s completely different architecture to suit each house IM JUST GLAD YOUR NOT BUYING ONE OF THESES BUILDINGS 🤣you’ve said CEMENT TWICE 😩SUFFOLK cottages were A sort of a Salmon Pink they used Pigs bLood or Ox and lime wash amongst other ingredients to obtain that colour . 🤣Oust houses if you took the ROOF OFF which is called a COWL you might as well buy a round house 🤗any way I don’t think you would be allowed as the building would be protected from individuals like yourself it’s amazing that you even said it 🤣interesting to watch something we live with and APPRECIATE CEMENT INDEED 🤗🤷‍♀️

[@richardwest6358]

In EVERY dictionary definition of a cottage you will find the word - "small". Many of the examples shown would be describled by every Estate Agent (Relator) as a House. I wish you would buy (and use) an English Dictionary and an Atlas. You could then stop asking questions of your bemused mind every few minutes.

[@larrywave]

Interesting differences between finnish and english as we have 3 different words for things you would just call cottage

[@larrywave]

*4

[@Janie_Morrison]

Fairytale she lost your hand full of money for cottages your best with a house with a nice garden