Far away on the hillside a fox gave a cry, and from the old thatched barn close by came the melancholy hoot of an owl.

Developments are currently underway on the thatched barn, which is being made in an eco-friendly way.

Both houses have been demolished but their outbuildings, including a thatched barn and two dovecotes, remain.

Follow this for a half a mile, past a huge thatched barn on the right, then Marsh Lodge on the left.

At one end of the village, Home Farm is a 17th-century timber-framed house with its thatched barn and 17th-century granary.

Oddly enough, she thought, it was all, in its way, as remote from the war as the meadows and thatched barns of Dorset.

Until the late 1970s the building was an excellent example of a traditional thatched barn.

Finally, they could go no further, and swooped down onto the roof of a thatched barn just outside Dulverton.

It is a bucolic vignette in earthenware, with farm animals sitting in front of a thatched barn.

A stone wall, broken by a single open gate, surrounded both the house and what appeared to be a thatched barn.