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     Tudor Revival and English Cottage Style
     MEDIEVAL STYLE IN AMERICA
       In 1928, in the Builder's Home Catalog, you would have found the following
     description of this style:

     "The soaring, evanescent spirit of Gothic architecture seems to have little to                                                     do
     with domestic buildings. And in actuality it is impossible to find such salient
     features as high vaulted ceilings, delicate buttresses and real stained glass
     windows short of a mediaeval castle. Yet if we look at it in a broader way, if                                                     we
     remember that the desires for buoyant freedom, for romance itself is at the                                                        core
     of Gothic architecture we can find some domestic expression of it. Chief
     among these are the half timber houses of Tudor and Elizabethan England.
     The principle behind the Gothic home is one of frankness. That is the exterior                                                     is a
     frank expression of the interior. The floor plan is first laid out and, regardless                                                 of its
     intricacy, the exterior is made to reveal what it encloses. Thus the Gothic                                                        style
     is the most flexible of all. Though symmetry is sacrificed it is more than made                                                    up for
     in the subtle balancing of parts. The finished result, if carefully watched, will                                                  be a
     beautiful composition of shapely architectural forms, varied wall surfaces,
     projecting casements and rich, decorative detail. For the expression of one’s
     personality in a home, nothing could be more pliable, and in the end
     satisfying."
     An outgrowth of the Queen Anne style favored for its storybook charm and design versatility, the Tudor Revival style was popular in
     many areas of the US from 1915 to about 1940. Its impact may have been as modest as a single steep dormer on a small house to a
     grand medieval manor. This style and its cousin—the English Cottage—continues to be extremely popular and still influences
     contemporary American architecture.
     The Tudor Revival is found in homes both small and palatial. The cottage -style variant is generally smaller and more common. It is
     frequently found in house pattern books of the 1920s and 30s.
                                                                Description

                                                            The Tudor and English Cottage style is notable for its steeply pitched, cross -
                                                            gabled roof. Decorative half timbering is common in the gable and second story.
                                                            The windows are relatively tall and slender with multi-pane glazing separated by
                                                            either wood or lead muntins. Chimneys are very large and commonly decorated
                                                            with ornate chimney pots.
                                                            Several different siding treatments are common including brick, stucco, stone,
                                                            and wood shingle or clapboard. On the balloon fram ework of the 20th century,
                                                            brick was particularly popular and various siding combinations are commonly
                                                            seen.
                                                            Roofs are found in most roofing materials but the most interesting variation is
                                                            the false thatched roof where the roofing material is rolled around the eaves.
                                                            The effect created is very charming and effectively mimics the thatched roofs of
                                                            English country cottages. Less common is the parapeted gable.
                                                            Windows, another distinctive feature, are often casement types opening out as
                                                            well as the more common double-hung window. Multiple windows are arranged
     in ribbons across the façade. Sashes are multi-paned with lead or wood muntins.

     General Characteristics
     Typically, Tudor or English Cottage style homes have a combination of the following characteristics:
           One-and-one-half to two stories
           Asymmetrical plan
           Cross-gabled, medium to steeply pitched roof, sometimes with clipped gables
           Half-timbering
           Arrangements of tall, narrow windows in bands; small window panes either double-hung or casement
           Over scaled chimneys with decorative brickwork and chimney pots
           In the English Cottage, a steeply gabled, enclosed entry is common
           Cozy, irregularly-shaped rooms

     House Plans - Examples of the Tudor Style
           Radford Design No.543 An Early example of the half timbering found on Tudor Style homes - 1903.
           Bilt-Well Model 4230 A Tudor Cottage with clipped gables - 1924.
           The Westmoreland A Tudor style English Cottage - 1926.




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o                      Thatching
    From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia




    A thatched pub (The Williams Arms) at Wrafton, near Braunton, North Devon, England
    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thatching
     Thatching is the craft of building a roof with dry vegetation such as straw, water reed, sedge (Cladium mariscus), rushes and heather, layering the
     vegetation so as to shed water away from the inner roof. It is a very old roofing method and has been used in both tropical and temperate climates.
     Thatch is still employed by builders in developing countries, usually with low-cost, local vegetation. By contrast in some developed countries it is
     now the choice of affluent people who desire a rustic look for their home or who h ave purchased an originally thatched abode.
                                                      HISTORY
     CONTENTS
                                                      Thatch during renovation.
                                                      Inside view of an Inca roof in one of the few reconstructed buildings of Machu Picchu




                                                        The tradition of thatching has been passed down from generation to generation for thousands of
                                                        years, and numerous descriptions of the materials and methods used in England over the past three
                                                        centuries survive in archives and early publications.
     In equatorial countries thatch is the prevalent local material for roofs, and often walls. There are diverse building techniques from the ancient
     Hawaiian hale shelter made from the local ti leaves, lauhala [1] or pili grass of fan palms to the Na Bure Fijian home with layered reed walls and
     sugar cane leaf roofs and the Kikuyu tribal homes in Kenya.[2][3] The colonisation of indigenous lands by Europeans greatly diminished the use of
     thatching.
     Thatch has probably been used to cover roofs in Europe since at least the Neolithic period, when people first began to grow c ereals. Wild vegetation,
     especially water reed (Phragmites australis), was probably used before this but no records or archaeol ogical evidence for this have survived ”. [4]
     Early settlers to the New World used thatch as far back as 1565. Native Americans had already been using thatch for generations. When settlers
     arrived in Jamestown, Virginia in 1607, they found Powhatan Indians living in houses with thatched roofs. The colonists used the same thatch on
     their own buildings. [5]
     In most of Europe and the UK, thatch remained the only roofing material available to the bulk of the population in the countryside, and in m any
     towns and villages, until the late 1800s. The commercial production of Welsh slate had begun in 1820 and the mobility which the canals and then
     the railways made possible meant that other materials became readily available. The number of thatched properties actually increased in th e UK
     during the mid-1800s as agriculture expanded, but then declined again at the end of the 19th century because of agricultural recession and rural
     depopulation. Gradually, thatch became a mark of poverty and the number of thatched properties gradually declined, as did the number of
     professional thatchers.
     Thatch has become much more popular in the UK over the past 30 years, and is now a symbol of wealth rather than poverty. There are now
     approximately 1,000 full time thatchers at work in the UK, and thatching is becoming popular again because of the renewed int erest in preserving
     historic buildings and using more sustainable building materials.
     [EDIT] THATCH MATERIAL




                                    A closeup of the thatching.                         Bundling technique used in straw thatching.




                                      Inside view of a straw-thatched house.                         Outside layer of moss and lichen growing on thatch.