W attle-and-Daub By far the most common and the earliest form of infilling that is known is wattle-and-daub (47). This comprised an interwoven timber background fixed between the studs (the wattle) onto which was put a layer of wet clay mixed with straw or hair (the daub). Many local variations are to be found in […]
Category: Timber-Framed, Buildings of England
Raised aisle construction
off this tie-beam, was usually a collar-purlin and crown-post. This simple device freed the floor, it is true, but only by substituting a structure which lacked headroom and so destroying the overall effect of height obtained within an aisled hall. Another method of clearing the hall was to place the whole aisled structure on hammer-beams […]
Base-cruck construction
found mainly in the South-West – Gloucestershire and Somerset having the most. As we have seen, the base cruck was never adopted in eastern England, and here raised aisles were used to provide the required unobstructed floor space. It was a comparatively simple method in which the arcade-posts supported off the ground floor were omitted […]
Aisled construction
post into which the principal rafters were framed. These rafters were further strengthened by a collar at high level. Stability could be further increased by the introduction of straight braces between the arcade-post and the beam, or later with curved braces between the arcade-post and – beam and arcade-post and tie-beam. To secure the external […]
Aisled and Quasi-Aisled Construction
A roof could span only a limited width, usually about eighteen feet and rarely more than twenty feet, without increasing the size of the timbers so much that it would become both impracticable and uneconomical. In order to increase the roof span and therefore the floor area, aisled construction was used, dividing the structure into […]