century. In most of the houses built in the fourteenth and fifteenth centuries jettied upper floors were confined to the end bays or cross­wings flanking the open hall. Generally this was to the front, but sometimes, especially in the Wealden houses, the jettying returns along the ends and even on occasion at the rear as […]

(The word comes from the French jete, meaning something thrown out.) Jettying can occur on one or more sides and even on occasion on all four sides and on more than one storey, projecting in some cases as much as four feet. When jettying was to one side only, the construc­tion was simple, for all […]

joints from the fourteenth century onwards included the soffit tenon, structurally the best of all the types, often with diminished haunches above the tenon to prevent winding. This was also achieved by housing the shoulders in various ways. Generally those of the seventeenth century, although having additional features, were structurally in­ferior, and by the beginning […]

25. Cottage, Lode, Cambridgeshire Upper Floor and Jetty Construction In a timber-framed building the construction of the upper floors comprises floor joists spanned either across the building or along the building from bay to bay. When the span was too great, one or sometimes two bridging-beams were introduced to reduce it, with the joists jointed […]

exposed. The timbers used were slight and straight but the construction was similar to that of earlier buildings, though the sparing use of timber gives a somewhat different visual effect. Often these timbers came from demolished buildings, which were cut up to provide timbers of smaller scantlings for re-use, but by the eighteenth and nineteenth […]