Roof Material Medieval

What did medieval houses use for roofs.

Roof material medieval.

Straw usually termed thatch. This is a lot of fun. Thacktyle they were mentioned in london building codes as early as 1212 and were almost certainly in use earlier. The truth is that straw by itself or as a major component was used across most houses during the middle ages.

This picture is a great example of two of the techniques you can use to make the roof. It turns out that clay roof tiles had their own name. In this tutorial i shows you a bunch of different ways you can make the roofs of the medieval buildings. Lumber the spaces between the logs would have been chinked with clay wattle soil and turf anything to keep out the rain wind and snow.

Straw might seem like a very lightweight material and we hardly come across it when it comes to archeological digs of medieval settlements. You can use small pieces of wood or you can cast the roofs with plaster. Roofs have been constructed in a wide variety of forms flat pitched vaulted domed or in combinations as dictated by technical economic or aesthetic considerations. Roof covering of the top of a building serving to protect against rain snow sunlight wind and extremes of temperature.

The earliest roofs constructed by man were probably thatched roofs that were made of straw leaves branches or reeds. The tiles replaced extremely fire prone thatched roofs. Slate or shale lovely stuff.