View of roof above window showing timber supports and stone weights; 12, Lower Ardelve.

Description View of roof above window showing timber supports and stone weights; 12, Lower Ardelve.

Date 12/6/2015

Collection Records of the Society for the Protection of Ancient Buildings, London, England

Catalogue Number DP 241094

Category On-line Digital Images

Scope and Content 19th century cottage with later central projecting corrugated iron porch to front elevation. The cottage is listed as having a roof of ‘rush and/or straw thatch with some heather at eaves, pinned at ridge and eaves with bent hazel wands’, though according to Mary Myers in her book Western Seaboard: An Illustrated Architectural Guide (2008), the roof, ‘originally of rushes and heather’, was ‘re-thatched with rushes pinned with hazel wands in 1996’. The building has been on the Buildings at Risk (BAR) Register since 1998 (BAR reference number 876), and since then BAR has documented its deterioration as well as a series of ongoing repairs in its vacant state. The thatch has some vegetation growth throughout, patches of both moss and grass. The roof is entirely netted, and has had a number of timber branches secured horizontally across the surface of the thatch by hazel, a few of which have become loose and slipped down the roof. The netting is weighted at the eaves, by metal poles that have been hooked into the holes of the netting. The metal poles then have stones hanging from them, secured to the poles by string. Along the back elevation, two sections of the netting have been weighted by two steel beams attached to the base of the netting at the eaves, which do not have any stones hanging from them. At the west end of the ridge there is a straw-thatched wooden capping to the lum, which has been bound with twine.

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