Half-timbered

Quick meaning: Half-timbered is an adjective meaning (architecture) Of a building: constructed using a load-bearing timber frame with the spaces (panels) between the timbers filled with bricks, stone, or wattle and daub, etc. (the infill), especially if the timber frame is visible on the outside of the building.

Meaning

(architecture) Of a building: constructed using a load-bearing timber frame with the spaces (panels) between the timbers filled with bricks, stone, or wattle and daub, etc. (the infill), especially if the timber frame is visible on the outside of the building.

Example Sentences

The construction here described, is exactly similar to that followed in the old half timbered houses of England.

This half-timbered building is the birthplace of William Shakespeare. In this house, he and his brothers and sisters were born and raised.

Some of the streets are very narrow, with old half timbered houses on each side; Crown-street is a specimen of the early style of its street architecture.

We pass Much and Little Marcle, and Dymock, all ancient sounding and through the waking up heart of the half-timbered market town of Ledbury, dating to the Doomsday Book.

Word Forms

• halftimbered

Synonyms for half-timbered

Depending on context, synonyms include half-timber, timbered.

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include timbered, boarded, low-studded, furnitured, split-level, built-in.

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