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| Hi all! People have been building a specific style of half timered houses (and villages) for some time now. Another example is new on BS, which in spired me to write this: (URL) houses seem to be build with the 1st floor of stone, the second floor (...) (19 years ago, 23-Nov-05, to lugnet.build.arch)
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| (...) it's not unheard of. (...) I think you ask an interesting question... I don't know why I do it that way, mostly because everyone else does? Most of the early CCC buildings are done that way, Dan Siskind's Blacksmith Shop set is done that way, (...) (19 years ago, 23-Nov-05, to lugnet.build.arch)
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| (...) Sonnich, I know I've seen pictures of half-timbered houses in older German and French villages, they may be more common there than in Denmark. The medieval city with narrow streets and half-timbered houses overhanging the street at higher (...) (19 years ago, 23-Nov-05, to lugnet.build.arch)
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| (...) I'm not a medievalist - I'm more of an aesthetic castler (going for the look, not accuracy) - but I did take a trip to England. Most houses were either all stone, or all timber, but there were a few that were half and half. This one for (...) (19 years ago, 23-Nov-05, to lugnet.build.arch, lugnet.castle)
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| (...) I add some pictures from 2004, of "full timbered"* houses. They do have a fundament, thourg small. (URL) links: (URL) Does "half timered" means, that the 1st floor is stones only? (19 years ago, 23-Nov-05, to lugnet.build.arch)
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| "Sonnich Jensen" <sonnich@hot.ee> wrote in message news:IqF0FD.pII@lugnet.com... (...) I can't speak for American-English, but in British-English, half-timbered refers to houses which are entirely made of timber-frame-with-infill. I think the "half" (...) (19 years ago, 23-Nov-05, to lugnet.build.arch)
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| (...) created around 1850 that wooden buildings were not allowed to be more than two stories high (because of the risk of fire). To get around this limitation a unique (for Sweden) house style emerged: the lower story made of stone (or sometimes (...) (19 years ago, 23-Nov-05, to lugnet.build.arch)
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| (...) After searching exhaustively on Google (well, as exhaustively as 1.5 minutes allows), the "half-timber" was a contrast to using complete logs -- the timbers were split, or (more often, I think) squared-off. Steve (19 years ago, 23-Nov-05, to lugnet.build.arch)
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| You do see half timbered houses in the UK a fair bit usually in terraced streets most frequently above shops. I've certainly seen more half timber than full timber but I guess they last better. As Lenny says extra floors were frequently added onto a (...) (19 years ago, 28-Nov-05, to lugnet.build.arch, lugnet.castle)
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