From: Mark & Shauna 
Newsgroups: alt.building.construction alt.architecture alt.building.realestate misc.consumers.house uk.d-i-y
Subject: Re: What's This Board?
Date: Tue, 22 Jun 2004 16:44:54 GMT

I would call it "half-timbering". In context a savvy customer may call 
you and say: "Would you please come and give me an estimate on repairing 
the half timbering on my tudor home"?

Battens may be a more appropriate term for the ornamental half timbering 
on todays tudors but I would still call it half timbering.

Ciao,
Mark

Nehmo Sergheyev wrote:
> - Rico dJour -
> 
>>It was the traditional infill of the time.  If people could have
> 
> afforded the
> 
>>brick they would have left it exposed.  And you are correct that the
> 
> wattle and
> 
>>daub was the term for the infill - half-timbered is the name I use for
> 
> the look
> 
> - Nehmo -
> Now that Mark told me it was half-timbering, I can look it up
> 
> Half-timbered
> http://architecture.about.com/library/blgloss-halftimbered.htm
> 'A "half-timbered" building has exposed wood framing. The spaces between
> the wooden timbers are filled with plaster, brick, or stone.
> 
> In Medieval times, many European houses were half-timbered. The
> structural timbers were exposed. In the United States, harsh winters
> made half-timbered construction impractical. The plaster and masonry
> filling between the timbers could not keep out cold drafts. Builders
> began to cover exterior walls with wood or masonry.
> 
> In the 19th and 20th centuries, it became fashionable to imitate
> Medieval building techniques. Many Queen Anne and Stick style houses
> were given false half-timbering. Timbers were applied to wall surfaces
> as decoration. Tudor, or Medieval Revival, style houses were often
> lavishly covered with ornamental half-timbering.'
> 
> Tudor / Medieval Revival
> http://architecture.about.com/library/bl-tudor.htm
> 
> They introduced some s-curve diagonal ones here:
> http://jan.ucc.nau.edu/~twp/architecture/tudor/tudor1.jpg
> 
> Fancy one
> http://www.manchesteronline.co.uk/ewm/001ewm/036_rm/index2.html
> 
> - Rico dJour -
> 
>>- I guess half-timber would be the name for the individual pieces...?
> 
> 
> - Nehmo -
> Yeah, it doesn't quite sound right. I've been calling them, not knowing
> another term, "battens".
> 
>