The gaps between were filled with additional supporting timbers and panels made from what was the most abundant local solution – wattle and daub, lath and plaster, compacted mud, clunch, or clay bats. Vertical timber posts were set at or into the ground at regular intervals, joined width-ways at the highest point by a cross member or “tie beam” and topped by the roof joists. Internally they were open from wall to wall and from floor to roof. In basic terms, long halls were three to four times longer than they were wide with a pitched roof. Our use of the word hall has somewhat grand connotations but in Old English pre-1150AD – a heall was simply “a roofed space” There is a caveat regarding Chiswick House in as much as it does contain a timber beam dated 1340 but this may have been taken from an earlier building and reused or, perhaps the inner core of the building is, in fact, Medieval. The remainder are predominantly 17th and 18th century. The two oldest half-timbered buildings in Meldreth are Chiswick House and The Green Man in North End – both early to mid-1500s and therefore considered to be Early Modern. Prior to the Norman invasion in 1066 the Anglo Saxons were building wooden-framed open long halls and it is reasonable to assume these were influenced by earlier Roman buildings.
Wood was widely available, its cost was low and, compared to stone, it was relatively easy to transport and to use. Buildings have been constructed from wood from time immemorial. Constructive criticism is also welcome.To better understand the historic buildings in Meldreth it is worthwhile considering what came before and how Medieval design traditions completely influenced house building in the Early Modern period.
If any of you have noticed, I will be grateful for the information about them. I apologize in advance for any errors, whether technical or substantive. You can go to the subpage of a particular monument by clicking on the marker or by using the alphabetical index or the search engine located at the bottom of each page. Therefore, every object is placed on the google map with the best possible location. I also hope that this site will help the organization of trips to all those who like to travel. Especially for places that have survived in rebuilt form or have been partially or completely destroyed. From here I will try to include all kinds of plans, reconstructions and archival drawings. The purpose of this web page is to give you an insight into the architecture in the past. More states will be added over time and capabilities.
The section of monuments on the following page will be based in large part on the modern state borders due to the excessive variability of borders over the centuries. However, they are quite fluid because of the many redevelopments of most of the surviving objects of those times. Time frames are from prehistoric times to the end of the Middle Ages, the beginning of the Renaissance. Welcome to the website dedicated to all kinds of architectural monuments: from castles and churches through monasteries, mosques, city walls, bridges, urban and rural buildings to chapels, barrows and ancient ruins.
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