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I don't know. Folks on here have guessed,based on its structure, that it is perhaps 17th century.Hobden said:
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Hobden said:
Correctly done to ensure that rain water falling on the roof tends to flow to the centre and down to the gutters and does not instead flow to the outside of the roof where it would fall off the gable end and thence run down the walls.
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I like roof shapes like that. Mine just tips up at the ends and dips between the rafters, but it is a much later roof. I guess earlier roofs were cut on site to suit the shape of wood they had. Pity the neighbours nabbed half of the barn. Have you thought about showing them the picture to prove the boundary has drifted over the years and maybe ask if you can set it out a bit more accurately? 
Do you know what the lighter patch is at the apex of the gable - some sort of roof void ventilation maybe? There seems to be a divide in the picture above first floor level but I was sure your house was fully timber framed and not half timbered.
Do you know what the lighter patch is at the apex of the gable - some sort of roof void ventilation maybe? There seems to be a divide in the picture above first floor level but I was sure your house was fully timber framed and not half timbered.
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Pic found by a friend at the local recource center,part of a sales leaflet,will have to visit myself and see if I am able to get details.date etc.Would love to put those dormers back!.
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Steady on malcs! Just because the building was there, doesn't mean it was mine!malcolm said:Pity the neighbours nabbed half of the barn. Have you thought about showing them the picture to prove the boundary has drifted over the years and maybe ask if you can set it out a bit more accurately?
Do you know what the lighter patch is at the apex of the gable - some sort of roof void ventilation maybe? There seems to be a divide in the picture above first floor level but I was sure your house was fully timber framed and not half timbered.
I don't know why the lighter patch at the top of the gable. You are misremembering, however. My house is 9 inch brick ground floor, only the upstairs is timber frame.
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How very satisfying for you, Zebra! One of the great joys of owning a period property is the knowledge of its permanence and longevity, and it's specially nice to have pictorial proof of this.
I agree with you about the window "prop".
It's also interesting to see Joce's image of men working in the field below her house, back in the days when there were proper standards of dress for such activities. It reminds me that I must give my carpentry top-hat a brush down.
I agree with you about the window "prop".
It's also interesting to see Joce's image of men working in the field below her house, back in the days when there were proper standards of dress for such activities. It reminds me that I must give my carpentry top-hat a brush down.
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Surely you make a nice paper carpenter's hat?
http://www.combemill.org/Carpenters_Hat_Instructions.pdf
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D'you know, Gareth, I have always wondered about the carpenter's unusual hat in Tenniel's AAIW illustrations. How interesting - thank you!
A good project for the grandsons, too!
A good project for the grandsons, too!