{"id":2205,"date":"2009-08-17T06:49:23","date_gmt":"2009-08-17T06:49:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.gardenvisit.com\/blog\/?p=2205"},"modified":"2009-08-17T06:49:23","modified_gmt":"2009-08-17T06:49:23","slug":"glass-and-thatched-roofs-at-athelhampton","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.gardenvisit.com\/blog\/glass-and-thatched-roofs-at-athelhampton\/","title":{"rendered":"Glass and thatched roofs at Athelhampton"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_2206\" style=\"width: 785px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a rel=\"attachment wp-att-2206\" href=\"http:\/\/www.gardenvisit.com\/blog\/2009\/08\/17\/glass-and-thatched-roofs-at-athelhampton\/100_4233a\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-2206\" class=\"size-full wp-image-2206\" title=\"Athelhampton\" src=\"http:\/\/www.gardenvisit.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/08\/100_4233a.jpg\" alt=\"Glass roof and thatched roof at Athelhampton House and Garden\" width=\"775\" height=\"517\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.gardenvisit.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/08\/100_4233a.jpg 775w, https:\/\/www.gardenvisit.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/08\/100_4233a-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.gardenvisit.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/08\/100_4233a-768x512.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.gardenvisit.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/08\/100_4233a-624x416.jpg 624w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 775px) 100vw, 775px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-2206\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Glass roof and thatched roof at Athelhampton House and Garden<\/p><\/div>\n<p>Here is a really good example of context-sensitive design: the glass roof sits beautifully with the thatched roof. It looks as though the pitch is the same and I can&#8217;t even be sure whether the piers which support the glass are old or new. But some of the other details are less than perfect &#8211; the trip rail, though suitably rustic,\u00a0 seems unnecessary and the outdoor lantern is not in keeping with the arts and crafts excellence of the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.gardenvisit.com\/garden\/athelhampton_house_gardens\">Athelhampton garden<\/a> or indeed with what is described as one of the finest 15th century houses in England.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Here is a really good example of context-sensitive design: the glass roof sits beautifully with the thatched roof. It looks as though the pitch is the same and I can&#8217;t even be sure whether the piers which support the glass are old or new. But some of the other details are less than perfect &#8211; [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,13],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gardenvisit.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2205"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gardenvisit.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gardenvisit.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gardenvisit.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gardenvisit.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2205"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.gardenvisit.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2205\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gardenvisit.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2205"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gardenvisit.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2205"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gardenvisit.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2205"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}