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”go 149. Pullens Farm, Horsmonden, Kent |
ished’ Wealden houses were frequently used in towns and in particular in terraced houses, like the group previously mentioned at Battle.
Unlike the aisled house, in the later open-hall house the central open truss was rarely placed centrally; one bay – sometimes the upper bay, sometimes the lower one – was always longer than the other. The overall length of the open hall obviously varied; some can be as little as thirteen feet, as at Pullens Farm, Horsmonden, Kent, which has only a single-bay hall; however, most two-bay open halls vary between twenty-three and twenty-six feet in length.
The type of central truss spanning the hall also differed greatly in various parts of the country. In the East and South-East the crown-post and collar-purlin form of construction was almost universally adopted, while in the West it was the arch-braced collar beam. Both these types, and especially the arch-braced collar-beam roof, which was probably the most ornamental type of roof, were
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