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Half-timber construction

Scope note

Use both for the vernacular building technique in which the spaces between the heavy supporting timbers are filled with brick, wattle and daub, or other material, and to describe buildings with a false-timber frame attached to the outside wall to give the appearance of half-timber construction.

Term type

AAT

Getty AAT term number

3000125479

Broader Terms used

<construction by form>

Equivalent Terms used

half-timber

Created

12yrs ago

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