Thatched Collection

Gold Hill in Winter, Shaftesbury, Dorset, England

Old Alresford, Hampshire, England, United Kingdom, Europe

Nipa Houses near Manila, Philippines
Nipa Stilt Houses (also known as bahay kubo, is an indigenous house used in the Philippines. The native house is constructed out of bamboo tied together)

An Irish Fiddler - a view of a man sitting with a fiddle outside a thatched cottage and a lady and two boys looking on. (Location: Ireland). Date: circa early 1900s

Ballycarry, Co. Antrim - a rural street scene with people on the left and a horse vehicle on the right, there are thatched buildings. (Location: Northern Ireland: County Antrim; Ballycarry)

Children pose for the camera a97_05492
A thatched cottage, Marsh Gibbon, Buckinghamshire. A group of people pose for the camera in front of thatched cottages. Photographed by Alfred Newton and Son 1904

Brean Down J890031
BREAN DOWN, Somerset. Reconstruction drawing of Bronze Age huts, by Peter Dunn (English Heritage Graphics Team)

Pogues Entry, Antrim - a view of whitewashed buildings, one thatched, in Antrim town, people are at the door or outside, looking at the camera. (Location: Northern Ireland; County Antrim; Antrim)

The Diamond, Bellaghy - a street scene with few people and thatched buildings. (Location: Northern Ireland: County Londonderry: Bellaghy). Date: circa early 1900s

Browns Bay Islandmagee, Looking North - an elevated view looking down on buildings and thatched buildings. (Location: Northern Ireland: County Antrim: Islandmagee). Date: circa early 1900s

Gold Hill, Shaftesbury, Dorset, England, United Kingdom

Goddard House, Shellingford, Oxfordshire BB97_11879
Goddard House, Shellingford, Oxfordshire with the inhabitants standing outside in the vegetable garden. Photographed by Frederick Ault. Date range: 1860 - 1914. Part of the Henry Taunt collection

Birdoswald Roman Fort J050056
HADRIANs WALL: BIRDOSWALD ROMAN FORT, Cumbria. Reconstruction drawing by Philip Corke of the timber building on the site of the North granary. hadrian

Shaftesbury / Gold Hill
Shaftesbury, Dorset: Gold Hill

Thatched Cottage in the Yeats Country, Ben Bulben Mountain, County Sligo, Republic of Ireland

Port Muck, and Muck Island Islandmagee, Co. Antrim - a view looking down on the harbour and beached boats and thatched buildings

Portglenone on the Bann, Co. Derry - a street scene with a motor car and children in the foreground and horse vehicles in the distance. There are some shop fronts and thatched buildings

THE CAT HOUSE
The Cat House a curious thatched cottage decorated with cat motifs, Henfield, Sussex, England. Date: 1950s

Picturesque thatched cottage at Thornton-le-Dale, North Yorkshire Moors National Park, Yorkshire, England, United Kingdom, Europe

Thatched cottages with roses on the walls at Burton Bradstock in Dorset, England, United Kingdom, Europe

Chysauster Ancient Village J890149
CHYSAUSTER ANCIENT VILLAGE, Cornwall. Reconstruction drawing of a homestead / courtyard house showing occupants and their animals, by Judith Dobie (English Heritage Graphics Team)

Chysauster Ancient Village J890148
CHYSAUSTER ANCIENT VILLAGE, Cornwall. Iron Age reconstruction drawing by Judith Dobie (English Heritage Graphics Team)

Cottage by Runswick Bay K011112
RUNSWICK BAY, North Yorkshire. A thatched cottage looking towards Kettleness, six miles north of Whitby

Browns Bay, Islandmagee - a further back and more elevated view of the harbour and the thatched buildings. (Location: Northern Ireland: County Antrim: Islandmagee). Date: circa early 1900s

Straidkilly, Carnlough, The Slipping Village - a view of Straidkilly with a man driving on the road with a horse and cart. There is a thatched cottage on the right

Agatha Christies cottage near River Dart, Devon
Agatha Christies cottage near the River Dart, Devon, with three cars parked in the foreground. Date: circa 1960s

The Mill, Hobbiton, North Island, New Zealand, Pacific

Old Time Cottage, Wiston. date unknown
Old Time Cottage at Wiston, nr Steyning Photographer: Drewett, W. J. Photographic Collection West Sussex Record Office Ref No: PH 1163

Thomas Hardys cottage, Higher Bockhampton, near Dorchester, Dorset, England, United Kingdom, Europe

Anne Hathaways Cottage, birthplace and childhood home of Shakespeares future wife, Shottery village, near Stratford-upon-Avon, Warwickshire, England, United Kingdom, Europe

Traditional Cornish round houses, Veryan, Cornwall, England, United Kingdom, Europe

Thomas Hardys cottage, Bockhampton, near Dorchester, Dorset, England, United Kingdom, Europe

A Devon Cottage
MAL43377 A Devon Cottage by Strachan, Arthur Claude (1865-1935); Private Collection; eMallett Gallery, London, UK; Scottish, out of copyright

Church Cove, The Lizard, Cornwall. Date: 1960s

Riverside thatched cottage, New Alresford, Hampshire, England, United Kingdom, Europe

Groomsport, Co. Down - a village street scene with thatched cottages and church on the right and children playing in the middle of the road. (Location: Northern Ireland: County Down: Groomsport)

Straidkilly, Carnlough, A Quiet Chat - a view of a man with horse and cart, talking to a lady outside a thatched cottage. There are other buildings to the left

Chilean Indian Woman weaving a blanket on a frame set against the thatched roof of her house Date: circa 1904

England / March 1940S
The market town of March, in the Cambridgeshire Fens, England, showing a deserted street, apart from seven bicycles curiously parked outside the Ship Inn!

England / Cadgwith
Cadgwith, a pretty fishing village on the coast of Cornwall, England

Timber framed thatched cottage and garden with spring flowers at Eastnor in Hereford and Worcester, England, United Kingdom, Europe

Thatched cottage, Gloucestershire, The Cotswolds, England, United Kingdom, Europe

Thatched house, Howmore, South Uist, Outer Hebrides, Scotland, United Kingdom, Europe

Croft, Old Clachan, Culloden, Inverness-shire, Scotland, United Kingdom, Europe

Traditional Lithuanian farmsteads from the Zemaitija region, Lithuanian Open Air Museum, Rumsiskes, near Kaunas, Lithuania, Baltic States, Europe

Thatched hotel, Brockenhurst, New Forest, Hampshire, England, United Kingdom, Europe

The Rising Sun hotel and thatched buildings, Lynmouth, Devon, England, United Kingdom, Europe

Thatched cottages, Otterton, south Devon, England, United Kingdom, Europe

Irish Slide Car, Glynns of Antrim, Going for the Turf - a slide car with two men outside a thatched cottage. (Location: Northern Ireland: County Antrim). Date: circa early 1900s

Thatched Cottage, Selworthy, Exmoor, Somerset, UK

Typical thatched Irish cottage near Glencolumbkille, County Donegal, Ulster, Republic of Ireland (Eire), Europe

Traditional house near Borve, South Harris, Outer Hebrides, Scotland, United Kingdom, Europe

Thatched cottage, Selworthy, Exmoor National Park, Somerset, England, United Kingdom, Europe

Thomas Hardys cottage, Bockhampton, near Dorchester, Dorset, England, United Kingdom, Europe

Tonkins Corner, Constantine, Cornwall. Early 1900s
Our House at Tonkins Corner - the house in which Mr. Tonkin the photographer lived. Photographer: Tonkin

General view of Porthoustock, St Keverne, Cornwall. 1908
General view of the east side of the beach and village, with boats on the shore. Photographer: Herbert Hughes

Dunargus Malin Head, Co. Donegal - an elevated view looking over thatched cottages to the sea and Headland beyond. (Location: Republic of Ireland; County Donegal; Dunargus). Date: circa early 1900s

The Vennel, Glenarm - a street scene looking down with children in the middle of the road and thatched building to the left. (Location: Northern Ireland: County Antrim: Glenarm)

Black Mountain, Belfast - with thatched cottage in foreground. (Location: Northern Ireland: County Antrim: Belfast). Date: circa early 1900s

New Ferry Village, Co. Antrim - a rural street scene with thatched building and motor car on the road and children and dog to the right. (Location: Northern Ireland; County Antrim; New Ferry)

A Corrymeela Farm, Cushendun - a view of a thatched cottage with lady outside feeding a pig, to the left is a spinning wheel. (Location: Northern Ireland: County Antrim: Cushendun)

Thatching a church, Suffolk BB98_14595
Lowestoft, Suffolk. Thatchers at work on the roof of St Margaret and All Saints Church view from the south east. Photographed by Hallam Ashley in October 1949

Timber framed house, Suffolk BB98_14520
Church Farmhouse, St Nicholas South Elmham, Suffolk. This early 16th-century house has been stripped back prior to a full restoration

English village a079532
A view from an elevated position over an unidentified village lane, showing small whitewashed and thatched cottages either side of the road and a rural landscape of fields beyond

Rustic cottage CC73_01239
Rustic cottage, Nuneham Park, Nuneham Courtenay, Oxfordshire. The thatched cottage, situated in the park grounds, was created for the first Earl Harcourt by the landscape architect, Capability Brown

Maiden Castle J870381
MAIDEN CASTLE, Dorset. Reconstruction drawing by Paul Birkbeck showing the Iron Age round houses

Maiden Castle J900279
MAIDEN CASTLE, Dorset. Reconstruction drawing by Miranda Schofield (English Heritage Graphics Team) showing round thatched houses in iron age settlement

Old Smithy at Branscombe, near Sidmouth, Devon, with a horse having a hoof inspected. Date: circa 1910s

Cottages on Gold Hill in winter snow, Shaftesbury, Dorset, England

Village Cross - The Borough - Downton nr. Salisbury, Wiltshire. Date: circa 1903

Newtownbreda, Belfast - a rural street scene with thatched cottages on the right and three boys on the left. (Location: Northern Ireland: County Antrim: Belfast). Date: circa early 1900s

Coney Island Ardglass, Back Strand - a view of thatched cottages on the right and the sea wall on the left. There are people outside the cottages looking towards the camera

Coney Island, Ardglass - a view of this coastal hamlet with a thatched building on the left, amongst others and two women on the sea wall on the right

Church Street, Bellaghy - a street scene with thatched buildings and two horse vehicle on the road. There are few people. (Location: Northern Ireland: County Londonderry: Bellaghy)

Irish Cottage Industries, Hand Embroidery on Linen in the Ards - another family group outside a thatched cottage, mother and daughter embroidering

Thaxted 1950S
A little girl with a bow in her hair rides her bicycle in a corner of the picturesque old town of Thaxted, Essex, England, with its old thatched cottages beside the Guild Hall Date: 1950s

Calenick, Cornwall. Early 1900s
A view of the centre of the village including the Clock Tower and Calenick House with fields behind. Three boys lean against a bridge watching the photographer

Traditional beehive house of the Dorze people made entirely from organic materials, Chencha mountains, Ethiopia, Africa

Thatched cottage, Bunratty, County Clare, Ireland
Thatched cottage, Bunratty, County Clare, Republic of Ireland. circa 1960s

Thatched Cottage on the Aran Islands, Co Galway by D. Noble
Thatched Cottage on the Aran Islands, County Galway, Republic of Ireland by D. Noble

Across Mounts Bay, c1880. Artist: Elizabeth Adela Forbes
Across Mounts Bay, c1880. Painting held in the Victoria and Albert Museum, London. From The Studio Volume 47. [London Offices of the Studio, London, 1909]

Amanzimtoti River, Natal Province, South Africa
Amanzimtoti (Manzimtoti) River, Natal Province, South Africa. Date: circa 1925

Cloughfinn, Islandmagee, Co. Antrim - a view of a thatched cottage beside the sea. (Location: Northern Ireland; County Antrim; Islandmagee). Date: circa early 1900s

Ballintoy Harbour and Sea Stacks, Co. Antrim - an elevated view of thatched cottages on the shore beside cliffs and sea stacks in the water. (Location: Northern Ireland; County Antrim; Ballintoy)

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Discover the charm of thatched houses in various corners of the world. From Nipa Houses near Manila, Philippines to Goddard House in Shellingford, Oxfordshire BB97_11879, these unique structures have captivated people for centuries. Step into Portglenone on the Bann, Co. Derry and be transported back in time as you admire the traditional Irish fiddler playing a lively tune. Journey to Ballycarry, Co. Antrim and marvel at the quaintness of a thatched cottage nestled amidst picturesque surroundings. Travel across continents to Old Alresford, Hampshire, England where you'll find an enchanting thatched cottage standing proudly against the backdrop of Europe's stunning landscapes. Immerse yourself in Yeats Country near Ben Bulben Mountain and witness a charming thatched cottage blending seamlessly with its natural surroundings. Experience true Irish culture as you ride through Glynns of Antrim in an authentic Irish slide car on your way to gather turf for warmth during colder months. Explore Port Muck and Muck Island Islandmagee, Co. Antrim or stroll along Browns Bay for breathtaking coastal views. Lastly, venture into Straidkilly village in Carnlough known as The Slipping Village and witness how these resilient thatched roofs withstand time's testaments while preserving their timeless beauty. Thatched houses are not just architectural wonders but also symbols of heritage and tradition around the globe.