half-timbering

1. Obsolete term for a timber-framed building, the gaps between the members of the frame filled with some other material, e.g. brick nogging or plaster on wattles or laths.

2. Building with the lower storey of stone or brick and the upper storeys, or parts of them, such as gables, timber-framed, and visible as such.

3. Building constructed of brick, block, etc., with timber applied to it in parts suggesting timber-framing, but in fact false.