These make the building very strong. Watch and find out which type of cottage Pip and Declan are talking about. PIP: Yeah, that's called a thatched cottage Delcan, like the one my Granny lives in.

Pretty as it is, this historic thatched cottage in a Cambridgeshire village ... ‘It was a creative household, and I was ...

That's because her white-walled cottage in Lisburn close to the M1 has a thatched roof. In the 1950s there were about 40,000 thatched buildings in Northern Ireland, but today there are fewer than ...