Reed thatch roof, 4 m

Reed-thatched gable roof module for village cottages, 4 m long and spanning a 5 m wide house at a 48 degree pitch: about 35 cm of combed water reed on pole rafters and hazel battens with a rounded eaves edge, a block-cut sedge ridge with a scalloped edge held by hazel liggers and cross spars, timber wall plates and lime-washed daub beam filling. Weathered straw-brown and grey with coarse bundle and course relief, rain streaks, algae and moss on the north slope; tiles end to end along a spline, gable ends open.

4.00 × 6.35 × 3.80 m