Written by Jonathan Lees RIBA. This country house started as many simple projects nowadays do, with an email. The client had seen an image that I had painted of a modest, Lutyens inspired country house that had a simple vernacular language with classical features.A conversation first held on site revealed that the house was designed in the early 20th Century by Maberly Smith
An afternoon in Eltham Palace, London.
Did you know that there are many secret Anne Boleyn symbols that can be found at Hampton Court Palace? Despite ruling for just three years during the Tudor dynasty, Anne Boleyn is one of the
The landmark is over 500 years old.
A spectacular piece of property deserves a house that does it justice, and that’s precisely what one Ohio couple achieved with their timber-framed home.
Is it a home with a museum or a museum that someone lives in? This timber tribute to Native American culture is a bit of both.
One of the great East Anglian hammerbeam angel roofs, less dramatic than some, but beautifully crafted and carved in chestnut wood.. The second tier of hammerbeams is decorative, serving no weight-bearing function.
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A timber frame home in the hills of West Virginia strikes the perfect balance for a couple with distinct design preferences.
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The Great Barn at Harmondsworth is the largest standing medieval timber-framed structure in Britain – and it has just been restored. Edward Impey investigates the remarkable story of its construction and its medieval use. Photographs by Will Pryce.
St Mary has a restored 15th C. hammerbeam room with wingless angels holding instruments of the passion. Above the chancel arch are the pale remains of a once-but-no-longer common "Doom Painting" depicting the Day of Judgment.
"Above...float painted angels on the roof hammerbeams. These were installed to celebrate the Battle of Agincourt in 1415 and hold shields of the Black Prince, musical instruments and Symbols of the Passion. They were repaired and repainted in 1958 and look vigorous." --Simon Jenkins, England's Thousand Best Churches (Penguin, 2000)
Huntingfield Church of St Mary the Virgin, Suffolk, England. A beautiful wee country church with the most glorious painted ceiling I've ever seen. A stitched panorama of about half a dozen images. I decided to leave the barrel distortion - I think it gives a feeling of the quite cramped knave. The artwork was by Mildred Holland the wife of the church's rector sometime in the 19th century. You can find out more at www.bbc.co.uk/suffolk/content/articles/2007/01/15/divine_...
16x24 Hammerbeam Timber Frame Pavilion, comes with all the timbers cut to fit together, all the fasteners, pegs, tongue and groove ceiling, 7/16" OSB to go over tongue and groove and under the metal, and the metal roof and fasteners. (Does not include the post bases, these need to be wet set into the slab). Made from Doug Fir or Pine (listed price is pine). The one that is shown is what I call a modified timber frame, we use some mortise and tenon construction along with lag bolts, black powder coated metal plates and other fasteners to assemble the structure. We can do a true mortise and tenon construction with oak wood pegs for a additional charge. We also have 18 different metal colors to choose from. You can get in contact with me to see what other options are available for roofing, other frame styles, etc. We can do any size of timber frame project you might be looking for, including barns, pavilions, pergolas, arbors, bridges and more. The 1/4 octagon that is attached to the corner is not included in this price. This frame is made from timbers that are not totally dry, so we cannot guarantee that the beams will not move, or crack some. We do guarantee that the frame will be structurally sound. We can provide assembly for a extra cost. Free delivery to within 200 miles of zip code 81252. We can deliver beyond that for additional cost. Text 719 458 4184 for info
Nestled in a quiet country village on the outskirts of Somerset lies a house with architecture so rare the only other place you’ll see anything like it is in the Houses of Parliament. In fact, most of Whitestaunton Manor, listed Grade-I for architectural or historical interest, is older than that venerable institution; it’s even namechecked [...]
in 1399 Richard II commissioned a hammer-beam roof to arch across the entire span of Westminster Hall. It is the largest medieval timber roof in Northern Europe with a span of 69 feet. The roof spans this great space, supported only by the buttressed walls and by certain inherent elements of strength developed by the interlocking on geometrical principles of the timbers of Sussex oak. The hammerbeam roof, invented in England in the late 1300's, made it possible to span wide spaces without rows of columns or stone vaulting. The trick was to make use of a series of short horizontal and vertical oak beams, rising in steps from the tops of the walls to the centre of the roof space. These distributed the weight of the roof to the sides. Not only serving a structural purpose, hammerbeam roofs are also very beautiful. In the tradition of great hall architecture it was Hugh Herland, the King's Master Carpenter, who swung this wonderful piece of open timber carpentry across the hall. His creation is one of the acknowledged structural and artistic masterpieces of the Middle Ages. To cover the gigantic 69ft (21.1m) width of the hall, he constructed a so-called hammer-beam roof, which effectively spanned the space in two structural stages. From the ground the whole roof seems to be supported on the backs of the huge, hovering figures of angels that are carved on each hammerbeam, holding shields that bear alternately the arms of Edward the Confessor and the ill-fated Richard.
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Written by Jonathan Lees RIBA. This country house started as many simple projects nowadays do, with an email. The client had seen an image that I had painted of a modest, Lutyens inspired country house that had a simple vernacular language with classical features.A conversation first held on site revealed that the house was designed in the early 20th Century by Maberly Smith