Mediaeval timber-framed buildings often employ jettying, where upper stories are cantilevered out on projecting wooden beams in a similar manner to corbelling.
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- in timber framed building, an overhang where an upper floor projects or juts (hence jetty?) over the floor below. Jetties were status symbols, and have some functional purpose in preventing deflection in floors.
Brick Nogging, Brick Partition Wall - Non-Load bearing wall, usually infilling between the columns or a steel framed building. The wall is generally constructed by bricks on edge. Wall ties and movement joints are needed for them ...
Bracing is often arranged in decorative patterns in timber-framed buildings. Arched braces: curved paired braces forming an arch, connecting wall or post below with tie-beam or collar beam above.
STUDS The upright timbers in a timber-framed building.
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TESTER A cover or canopy suspended over a tomb or a pulpit.
The division of a wall into narrow panels by vertical studs in timber framed buildings.
COFFERING
Arrangement of sunken panels (coffers), square or polygonal, decorating a ceiling, vault, or arch.
Pargeting - Exterior plastering of a timber-framed building, usually modelled in design, e.g. vine pattern, foliage, figures.
The overhanging or projecting part of a timber-framed building.
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A timber laid longitudinally along the top of a building wall to receive the ends of the rafters. In a timber framed building the posts and studs of the wall below are tenoned into it.
Weepers.
Shingles Small rectangular slabs of wood, usually cedar, used on roofs and timber framed buildings instead of tiles, slates etc.
of large rectangular shapes closely placed beneath the cornice, that are similar to a bracket in use, although modillions are purely ornamental as they formalize the look of beams protruding from beneath the roof of a early wood-framed building. (p.
In the mostly obsolescent and now rare balloon framing method, the wall studs are very long and tall and run from sill plate to roof plate, with the walls holding up the floors. In tall balloon framed buildings, ...
 See also: Frame, Timber, Member, Brick, Architecture
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