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Identifying feature

Half-timbering

A wall of visible wooden posts and beams with the gaps filled by plaster or brick, called infill. It was common in medieval Europe, and Tudor Revival houses imitate it.

a sign of these styles

Maison Kammerzell, Strasbourg, France: an example of Half-Timbered Half-Timbered c. 1300–1700 Exposed oak skeletons filled with plaster: crooked black and white frames, overhanging upper floors, and steep roofs. Mark Twain House, Hartford, Connecticut: an example of Stick Style Stick Style c. 1860–1890 Flat decorative boards laid in grids and diagonals over clapboard walls, with big trussed gables. Liberty London, London, England: an example of Tudor Revival Tudor Revival c. 1890–1940 Storybook medieval English: decorative dark timber over stucco, steep gables, and massive patterned chimneys.

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Arts and Crafts

often seen with

Prominent chimney A large chimney built on an exterior wall, often of patterned brick or grouped into clusters of stacks… Steep gable The triangular upper part of an end wall, framed by the two slopes of a steep roof. Knee brace A short diagonal support, usually wood, fixed between a wall and the underside of a roof overhang. Bay window A window projecting from the main wall, usually with three angled sides or a curved front. Cantilever A beam, floor or part of a building that projects beyond its support and is anchored at only one end. Carved wood ornament Decorative shapes cut into a building's wooden parts, such as brackets (supports under the eaves), porch… Clapboard siding Long, narrow horizontal wooden boards called clapboards, each overlapping the one below, nailed over a wood… Deep eave overhang Roof edges, called eaves, that extend well beyond the walls.