timber-framed houses
Beam-and-post construction
Timber-framed houses are buildings whose structural skeleton consists of heavy wooden beams joined by traditional joinery—mortise and tenon, wooden pegs—rather than nails or metal fasteners.
The frame bears the building's weight, while walls merely fill the spaces between timbers.
In Tudor and medieval styles, the dark timbers remain visible against white plaster infill: The village was full of timber-framed houses with their distinctive black-and-white facades.
- Tudor architectureEnglish late-medieval building design
- half-timberingExposed structural woodwork
- black and whiteWithout middle ground
- country cottageSmall rural vacation dwelling
- English countrysideRural areas of Britain
village green · carpentry · oak beams · post-and-beam · dovetail joints · clay bricks · thatched roofs · heritage conservation · historic preservation · traditional craftsmanship · Elizabethan style · gables · heritage · framing square · rafters · wattle · crooked · daub
- Old Europecobblestones, cobblestone streets, archways, gas lamps, stone walls
- Kronach District
- Weser RegionHamelin, Weser Renaissance, Pied Piper, Munchausen
- Wendland
- villagevillage, village green, village church, village square, villager
- Nordic countrysidebirch trees, pine forests, meadows, hay bales, wooden fences
timber-framed housesmodernist architecture
Spare, functional building design
timber-framed housesmodular homes
Dwellings made in sections
kit homes · manufactured housing · mobile homes · tract houses