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VBB Oct 23, 2012 19:56:50
Replying to Harryshill

Harryshill wrote:
Sorry, I don't know. I had to look a a picture of the barn to see how big it was.
It is huge, it is listed, and yes it has to be thatch (the huge cost of re-thatching the girt roof is partly why at the end the Wiltshire Rural Life Society closed the 'Great barn' museum and cleared the path for the NT to expand).

Sorry, lawst me thread...

The figures above are reliable (but rounded 45k = 45,249 for the barn 2011-12). I don't know the percentage of paying customers but I shall ask that question at the earliest opportunity.

H Harryshill
Harryshill Oct 23, 2012 20:32:36
Replying to VBB

Still seems a lot of money for a roof.

Any given type of thatch roof has a known 'shelf life'. It does seem inconceivable to me that that it wasn't known that the roof would need replacing, and unbelievable that no plan was in place to renovate it.

Custodians ??