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Wool, Dorset where I live is a village of about 5000 people. Although the properties are mainly new (20thC) the original village has several thatched properties. These are a selection of the original village cottages/houses that I pass at the start of my lockdown walk.
Dorset is a county on the south coast of England & is renowned for its thatches.
Esglesia Sant Climent, Pal, La Massana parroquia, Vall nord, Andorra, Pyrenees - (c) Lutz Meyer
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How many families have enjoyed sitting on this gorgeous front porch over the 96 years since this house was built? If we can save the house, our rocking chairs will also become part of its history.
From albany.org: "Built circa 1735, the house was used as military headquarters for a number of English generals during the French and Indian War. During the American Revolution the mansion once again served as military headquarters and was inhabited by Generals Schuyler, Gates, Poor, St. Clair and Colonels Morgan, Gansevoort and Arnold while formulating the plans for the battle of Saratoga." Cohoes, New York.
i started out just trying to get rid of those buildings, off in the distance. then...i got an itch...and, well. you know.
Cited from the National Museum of Iceland:
The building history of the turf farm, or rather, the turf-clad timber building of Laufás, stretches back to the Middle-Ages. The farmhouse has been rebuilt regularly, or as needed. In its present form the farm is the product of a rebuild in the time of Rev. Björn Halldórsson, a priest and dean in Laufás between 1853 and 1882. It is likely that Rev. Björn Halldórsson, Tryggvi Gunnarsson, a carpenter and later bank manager, and Jóhann Bessason, a carpenter from Skarð, co-operated in sketching out the appearance of the gables at the front. Tryggvi was the son of Rev. Gunnar Gunnarsson, Rev. Björn‘s predecessor and the carpenter‘s mentor. Jóhann Bessason was the head carpenter for most of the Laufás farm, apart from the bridal room and pantry. He built the auspicious baðstofa in 1867, but the front rooms and the smithy in 1877. He was a productive carpenter and built a number of houses in the region. The construction at Laufás is mostly timber frame structure, but part of the passageway is built with stave construction and the bridal room is a combination of the two methods.
The southernmost gable is built somewhat later than the others and differs from them. Other gables at the front of the Laufás farm are of the same height and the window and door arrangement is comparable. Gables with doors and windows alternate. The front cladding boards were originally painted red, but have had a light grey colouring since the early 20th century. The old farm at Laufás was last inhabited in 1936 when a new vicarage was built. The turf farmhouse became part of the National Museum‘s Historic Buildings Collection in 1948 and has been maintained by the museum since then.
The artifacts which are now kept in the farm were collected in the early sixties. Many of them are from the neighbouring farms but a few originate from Laufás. The collection was started by the sisters Sigrún and Sigurbjörg Guðmundsdóttir. The Akureyri Museum manages the Laufás farm and the exhibitions there.
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Taken during a beautiful spring day at a place I don't usually get to visit outside of the autumn for some reason.
We did a river walk from the mill & the manor house & church were on the opposite side. The church would in times gone by (& even now perhaps) probably be owned by the manor estate as this used to be the norm.
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