Fresh straw, newly laid by a Master Thatcher on a rear slope, contrasts at the roof ridge and by a brick chimney with the 30-year-old rotting and moss-covered combed wheat reed due to be replaced on the front slope of a 17th century ironstone cottage at Chipping Warden, an historic village between Banbury and Daventry in Northamptonshire, England, UK.
Chipping Warden, Northamptonshire, England, UK: fresh straw, newly laid by a Master Thatcher on a rear slope, contrasts at the roof ridge and by a brick chimney with the 30-year-old rotting and moss-covered combed wheat reed due to be replaced on the front slope of a 17th century ironstone cottage in this historic village between Banbury and Daventry.
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Location: Chipping Warden, Northamptonshire, England, UK
Photo credit: © Terence Kerr / Alamy / Afripics
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