Although some repair work is undertaken under the supervision and direction of an architect or building surveyor with knowledge of the repair of timber-framed structures, most of the repairing and adapting of these buildings is undertaken, with little or no professional assistance, by local builders who in many cases follow the instructions of their clients. […]
Category: Timber-Framed, Buildings of England
Isaac Lord’s Warehouse, Ipswich, Suffolk
arrangement must have been a common feature in many parts in Tudor England. Maltings In eastern England makings are a familiar sight, although they, like other such buildings, are being either demolished or converted into other uses. Although the majority are of brick, there were some that were constructed of timber. Most of these would […]
Shalford Mill, Surrey
201. Coggeshall Mill, Essex wheels, a more sophisticated arrangement than those built beside their streams with the wheel outside. While corn-milling was the primary function of most water-mills, in some areas from the thirteenth to the eighteenth century the fulling trade was equally important. A large number of the water-mills were built or rebuilt as […]
Great Chishill Mill, Cambridgeshire
enden and Rolvenden, both in Kent, Kibworth Harcourt, Leicestershire, Drinkstone, a typical west Suffolk mill, Friston and Framsden, both in Suffolk, Reigate Heath, Surrey, and in Sussex those at Clayton, Argos Hill, Hogg Hill, Icklesham and Cross-in-Hand. The construction of the postmill varied little in principle from other timber-framed buildings but greatly in detail. Oak […]
Pitstone Windmill, Buckinghamshire
Mill, which has been re-erected at the Avoncroft Museum of Building. There are several others which have been restored in recent years, among the finest being those at Stevington, Bedfordshire, Brill, Buckinghamshire, Great Chishill, Cambridgeshire (195), Cat and Fiddle Mill, Dale Abbey, Derbyshire (196), Aythorpe Roding, Bocking, Mountnessing and Ramsey, all in Essex, Cromer, Hertfordshire, […]