half-timber
Medieval building style
Half-timber describes a style of building construction where a wooden frame is exposed on the exterior, with the spaces between timbers filled with plaster, brick, or stucco.
The contrasting materials create a distinctive pattern of dark beams against light walls.
The style is associated with medieval and Tudor architecture in England and similar traditions across northern Europe: a half-timbered cottage in the Cotswolds.
Also half-timbered.
Sixteenth-century English ruling family
- medievalOf the Middle Ages
- frameworkUnderlying support system
- wattleHanging throat skin
- daubApply crudely
exposed · beams · infill · plaster · gable · jetty · nogging · stucco
Of Teutonic language stock
- EnglishBritain's native tongue
- BavarianOf a German state
- AlsatianCanine breed from Deutschland
- Norman1066 England conqueror
Elizabethan · Cotswolds · Stratford · Chester · Colmar · Herefordshire · Brittany · Rhineland
Visually pleasing, paintable
- quaintAttractively unfamiliar, outdated
- rusticRural and unrefined
- charmingPleasantly attractive in manner
- heritageInherited cultural legacy
restoration · preservation · revival · decorative · ornamental · patterning · herringbone · quatrefoil
Tudor
Sixteenth-century English ruling family
daub · exposed · beams · infill · plaster · gable · jetty · nogging · stucco · brick
Germanic
Of Teutonic language stock
Norman · Elizabethan · Cotswolds · Stratford · Chester · Colmar · Herefordshire · Brittany · Rhineland · Cheshire
picturesque
Visually pleasing, paintable
- quaintAttractively unfamiliar, outdated
- rusticRural and unrefined
- charmingPleasantly attractive in manner
heritage · restoration · preservation · revival · decorative · ornamental · patterning · herringbone · quatrefoil · lattice
- historic dwellingsmanor house, longhouse, log cabin, farmhouse, cottage
- folk dwellingsadobe house, bahay kubo, bamboo house, cob house, croft
- Tudor EraHenry VIII, Elizabeth I, Anne Boleyn, Catherine of Aragon, Jane Seymour
- dwellingshouse, home, apartment, cabin, cottage
- architectureEiffel Tower, buildings, architects, design, thatching
- historic architectureVersailles, Blenheim Palace, Hampton Court, Monticello, Mount Vernon
half-timberstone construction
Building made from rock
adobe · log construction · reinforced concrete · rammed earth · steel frame
half, halve, halved, halves, halving, halfway, halfback, timber, timbered