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Thatched Cob Cottage Building Materials
Popular in the West Country, these cottages have walls The choice of materials depended on
of cob covering a timber frame. Cob is a mixture of wet local availability. A stone cottage in Sussex
earth, lime, dung, reed, straw, gravel, sand and stones. county might be made from flint, or in the
Cotswolds, limestone. Timber for beams
The walls are 1 m The thatch was usually oak. Flint and pebble were
(3 ft) thick. is made from
reeds or straw. popular in the chalky southeast. Slate is
still quarried in Cornwall and brick has
been widely used since Tudor times.

Cornish slate,
suitable for making
a durable roof

Flint and pebble,
common in Sussex
and Hampshire
Weatherboard House Brick, widely used
These were built chiefly in southeast England in the since Tudor times
18th and 19th centuries. The timber boarding acted
as cladding to keep out the cold and rain.
Bay windows add The roof is Tiles made from
light and space. surfaced with tiles. fired clay blocks

Wooden planks,
often used for
weatherboarding

Local hard granite
from Cornwall

Stone Cottage
The roof is made Chimneys come
Structures like this 19th-century Cornish from Cornish slate. in various shapes.
farmhouse were built from local materials.
Granite walls and slate roof tiles give
protection from the harsh Atlantic storms.

Windows are often The walls are made
small in cold areas. of tough local granite.

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