SNN108004 - Building Recording at 62 Billing Road, Brafield-on-the-Green, Northamptonshire August 2006

As part of the restoration of cottage at 62 Billing Road, Brafield-on-the-Green it was necessary to remove the existing thatch covering which exposed the underlying roof timbers. Both were recorded prior to their replacement. The top coat of the thatch was approximately 30years old, though beneath it survived small remnants of earlier material in a very degraded state. The roof timbers were in a very poor condition and had undergone many repairs. The quality of the wood indicated that the cottage was a low status building made from cheap material; most of the timbers were only roughly trimmed and many retained bark. All were heavily infested with wood boring insects.