Rose Cottage The Square Nether Wallop
by Terri Waters
Title
Rose Cottage The Square Nether Wallop
Artist
Terri Waters
Medium
Photograph - Photograph
Description
This is Rose Cottage The Square Nether Wallop near Stockbridge in Hampshire.
Nether Wallop is a very picturesque village in central Hampshire, England.
It is part of The Wallops: Nether, Middle and Over Wallop. The name derives from 'waella' (stream) and 'hop' (valley) or 'the valley of springing water'.
The Test Valley is renowned for its fine chalk stream fishing and country pursuits with local footpaths and bridleways in abundance to include the Test Way and Clarendon Way.
Many of the beautiful properties in The Wallops have thatched roofs.
Thatching is the craft of building a roof with dry vegetation such as straw, water reed, sedge (Cladium mariscus), rushes, or 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, would like a more ecologically friendly roof, or who have purchased an originally thatched abode.
Thatch is a natural reed and grass which, when properly cut, dried, and installed, forms a waterproof roof. Traditionally thatchers use locally available materials. If local farmers were growing wheat, then wheat reed or straw was used. Rye, barley and oat straw, and even heathers have been used. In wet lowlands, sedge has been a traditional thatch, particularly for ridging material.
The most durable thatching material is water reed (Phragmites Australis) which can last up to 60 years.
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July 25th, 2013
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