Results
and Interpretation
Many of the selected buildings were built to a common plan;
these have a cruck framed open hall in-line with the road, laying
to the east of a box-framed cross-wing. This overly simplistic
description covers Brick House, West End, The Garth/Oak View,
Victoria Place, Old Forge, and the Old Post Office, although
each has its particular features of interest, one noticeable
aspect is that in several the cross-wing and halls are clearly
one integral structure. The surviving eastern cruck hall elements
of Fig Tree/Grosmont and Gatehouse would appear to belong to
buildings originally of this sort of arrangement. In contrast
the Greyhound has the box-framed cross-wing to the east of the
(clearly later) hall, whilst Wheelwrights, Swan House/School
View and the Old Stores are of quite different form and layout.
The assessment showed that there was great diversity in the
suitability of the timbers in the village for tree-ring analysis.
In general the cruck framed ends were constructed from knottier
and faster growing trees than those present in the box-framed
ends. There was however significant differences in the scantling
sizes and tree-ages of the timbers used, usually within any
one structure, and certainly across the village as a whole.
Overall there was no impression gained that a single woodland
was exploited for any single property with each property requiring
some large curving timbers for cruck blades as well as large
and small straighter timbers for purlins and suchlike in the
cruck end, as well as for the whole of the box-framing part. |
External
examination of The Greyhound (Kings House)
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