Half timbering - A method of construction in which the wooden frame and principal beams of a building are exposed, and the spaces between them are covered with plaster or masonry. Usually used in domestic architecture.
HALF TIMBERING - A method of construction featuring walls built in timber framework with the spaces filled in by plaster or brickwork. Often some of the exposed planks are laid at an angle to create a pattern.
Walls: Half Timbering, patterned wood shingles, patterned stick-work on walls
Parapet on gabled roof
Side-gabled, front-gabled or hipped with cross gables Roof: Steep pitch,
gabled or shaped dormers
round (sometimes square) towers ...
The facade of the house is composed of half timbering - large wooden members filled in with white stucco. Traditionally, the white stucco would cover a mixture of horse hair, horse and cow manure, and soil. This was medieval insulation.
steep gabled roofs decorated with half timbering or wooden relief decorations in the gable ends.
huge corbelled chimneys
numerous balconies
vertical windows
stained-glass windows
large porches are numerous and important
massive cutstone foundations ...
Large and small houses alike with half timbering in their upper storeys and gables were completed with tall ornamental chimneys, in what was originally a simple cottage style.
 See also: Timber, Gable, Floor, Doorway, Pitch
  
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