Wattle and daub: Shakespeare House, Stratford-Upon-Avon, England
Shakespeare House, Stratford-Upon-Avon, England
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Wattle - A mat of woven (willow) sticks and weeds; used in wall and dike construction.
Wave - Sinuous moulding.
Weathering - Sloping surface to throw off rainwater.
Wattle and daub
a technique of wall construction using woven branches or twigs plastered with clay or mud.
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Wattle and daub / Rab and Dab
- A system used to in-fill panels in timber framed structures, comprising of vertical staves of oak, interwoven with fine flexible branches or twigs, usually of hazel, and daubed with a mixture of mud, ...
wattle - build of or with wattle
frame up, frame - construct by fitting or uniting parts together
rebuild, reconstruct - build again; "The house was rebuild after it was hit by a bomb" ...
Daub: A mud of clay mixture applied over wattle to strengthen and seal it. Dead ground: Close to the wall, where the defenders can't shoot. Depressed arch: A flattened arch, slightly pointed on top.
The first three of these mosques (Shanga l-IIl) are dated to before 900 CE and the earliest appears to have been a small open-air structure surrounded by an enclosure made out of wattle and daub.
wattle and daub, lath and plaster, brickwork (known as nogging), etc.Inglenook(lit. fire-corner): Recess for a hearth with provision for seating.
(also known as the New Stone Age) [7000 - 3000 B.C.] cave dwelling, wattle and daub simple dwelling construction combined with timber and huge erected stones (megaliths) like Stonehenge.
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In Europe, long houses built from wattle and daub were constructed. Elaborate tombs for the dead were also built. These tombs are particularly numerous in Ireland, where there are many thousand still in existence.
Half-timbered -in late medieval architecture, a type of construction in which the heavy timber framework is exposed, and the spaces between the studs filled with wattle-and-daub, plaster or brickwork.
Tower houses: Clay tower - a cheap but effective type of Scottish square tower made with clay walls supported by an internal framework of interwoven wattles. L-plan - a tower house built on a 'L' shaped plan.
In half-timber construction, a quickly erected wooden frame was infilled with wattle and daub (twigs and plaster) or brickwork. Monastic barns and municipal covered markets necessitated large braced wooden frames.
 See also: Daub, Timber, Plaster, Architecture, House
  
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