The Textbook of Architecture

Glossary · H

Half-timbering

Also called half-timbered, timber-framed, timber framing

Building with a frame of timber whose panels are filled with other materials, wattle and daub or brick, so that the timbers show on the face of the wall; and its imitation, in boards fixed over brick, in the revivals of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries.

See also: Close studding, Wattle and daub

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