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Re: Half-timbered houses
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lugnet.build.arch
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Wed, 23 Nov 2005 18:31:19 GMT
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In lugnet.build.arch, Kevin Wilson wrote:
> "Sonnich Jensen" <sonnich@hot.ee> wrote in message
> news:IqF0FD.pII@lugnet.com...
> > I add some pictures from 2004, of "full timbered"* houses. They do have a
> > fundament, thourg small.
> > * Does "half timered" means, that the 1st floor is stones only?
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> 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" part refers to the fact that they are built half with
> timber, and half with infill, not that they are half stone and half
> timber-frame.
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> I agree with you that most half-timbered buildings that I have seen (in the
> UK) don't have a stone foundation. My "Half-Timbered Shops" kit doesn't have
> one, and I built that model referring to pictures of half-timbered buildings
> in Chester and other towns in the UK.
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
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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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