timber frame

Type of building construction sometimes called half-timbering, where walls and partitions are made of a wooden skeleton, set on a foundation, with the spaces filled with brick nogging, plaster, wattle-and-daub, etc. Timber-framed buildings are frequently tile-hung, plastered, weather-boarded or otherwise protected from the weather, as with mathematical tiles. See beam, brace, breastsummer, cill, collar, cross-rail, cruck, dragon-beam, jetty, joist, post, principal, purlin, rafter, rail, stud, truss; wealden house.

Timber frame Composite drawing showing typical elements (after JJS ).

Bibliography

• Alcock, Barley, Dixon, & Meeson (1996)
• R. J. Brown (1986)
• Brunskill (1994); Grossmann (1986)
• Sobon & Schroeder (1984)
• Jane Turner (1996)

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