A modern house of stucco and half-timber construction preferred. From Wordnik.com. [How to Write Letters (Formerly The Book of Letters) A Complete Guide to Correct Business and Personal Correspondence] Reference
As you can see in the pictures, the town is filled with lots of half-timber cuteness. From Wordnik.com. [Heppenheim!] Reference
We had dinner in the center at a pretty good restaurant in a huge old half-timber building. From Wordnik.com. [Life is back to normal!] Reference
It features half-timber construction, rustic stone, ornately carved wood and elegant interior. From Wordnik.com. [Doors Open 2008 | International Metropolis] Reference
Celle was a lot like Hann Münden - tons of half-timber houses with chain stores on the first level. From Wordnik.com. [Celle] Reference
The upper part of walls will be faced with red tiles and half-timber work, and the roof will be covered with. From Wordnik.com. [Scientific American Supplement, No. 362, December 9, 1882] Reference
The old town was full of very nicely cared-for and painted half-timber buildings, plus a brand-new kids' playground. From Wordnik.com. [Archive 2007-07-01] Reference
When we got there, we found a cute town with narrow streets, old walls and ruins, and adorably painted half-timber houses. From Wordnik.com. [Archive 2007-05-01] Reference
It's very well-preserved, and the monastery building itself is surrounded by an old wall and a few cute half-timber houses. From Wordnik.com. [Archive 2008-10-01] Reference
Even so, the town is a pleasant visit, with scores of Tudor half-timber buildings and Elizabethan decor in shops and restaurants. From Wordnik.com. [Feeling Listless - "Taking the credit for your second symphony."] Reference
In 1926 the Burfrey Realty Corporation, subdivided and built sixty-one "high-class half-timber English homes of individual design". From Wordnik.com. [Michael Henry Adams: Protecting the House Where Lena Lived!] Reference
Wandering around the usual old gates and half-timber buildings and churches were all kinds of costumed troupes and bands and dressed-up onlookers. From Wordnik.com. [Archive 2007-01-01] Reference
The style of architecture was like crazy Elizabethan half-timber work, in the elaborate Cheshire fashion, but gone gimcrack to an incredible degree. From Wordnik.com. [Seven Pillars of Wisdom] Reference
The ramshackle frame half-timber structures popular in the neighborhood leaned in overhead, reaching out to one another like drunks in need of mutual support. From Wordnik.com. [Petty Pewter Gods]
There we walked through their old town area, past some half-timber houses and two churches all decked out for Easter, and then on to two of the town's castles. From Wordnik.com. [Archive 2007-04-01] Reference
Late on that second day we came to the first bridge over the Southbrook, a structure half-timber, half-stone, which required three spans to cross the slow-flowing water. From Wordnik.com. [The Magic of Recluce]
Uji-yamada Post Office in Mie Prefecture built 1909: This one-story wooden building with copper roofing has a conical domed roof at its center, and its facing is in a half-timber style. From Wordnik.com. [Meiji Village Museum « Far Outliers] Reference
The whole house was a fine specimen of East Anglian half-timber work. From Wordnik.com. [Vanishing England] Reference
They could hardly tear themselves away from Anne Hathaway's thatched, half-timber cottage at. From Wordnik.com. [A harum-scarum schoolgirl] Reference
The half-timber stalls, temporary ice rink, floating market, and Medieval Christmas market outside the. From Wordnik.com. [Matador Network] Reference
Part of the house is built of stone and part half-timber, but a coat of thin plaster covers the stonework and makes it conform with the rest. From Wordnik.com. [Vanishing England] Reference
It was obviously of a date not later than the sixteenth century, and I guessed that the rough-cast probably concealed a half-timber work structure. From Wordnik.com. [The Jervaise Comedy] Reference
He found a pretty half-timber house lying back from the road, with a neat semi-circular gravelled path leading to a porch covered thick with Virginia creeper. From Wordnik.com. [The Joyous Adventures of Aristide Pujol] Reference
The cream-washed walls are broken up by the richly mellowed half-timber work, and above is the roof of grey green Horsham slabs splashed over with bright orange lichen. From Wordnik.com. [What to See in England] Reference
We left a new steward in the great half-stone and half-timber house, with house-carles enough to see that none harmed either him or the place, and so came back to Norton. From Wordnik.com. [A Prince of Cornwall A Story of Glastonbury and the West in the Days of Ina of Wessex] Reference
Before the old seat of the Whitgreaves was restored some fifteen or twenty years ago it was one of the most picturesque half-timber houses, not only in Staffordshire, but in England. From Wordnik.com. [Secret Chambers and Hiding Places Historic, Romantic, & Legendary Stories & Traditions About Hiding-Holes, Secret Chambers, Etc.] Reference
It was a glorious old mansion, built partly in half-timber and partly in grey stone, with an embattled tower for entrance, and a stone bridge crossing the moat that encircled the walls. From Wordnik.com. [A harum-scarum schoolgirl] Reference
The oriel window cast its slowly moving shadow on the half-timber walls; and the many lattice casements, with their small diamond-shaped panes, glistened in the sun as in the days gone by. From Wordnik.com. [Cobwebs and Cables] Reference
This design combines a Roman-inspired brick archway, two dormers suggesting the English half-timber look, and a roof with rounded lines to suggest the thatched roof associated with an early English cottage. From Wordnik.com. [daytondailynews.com - News] Reference
This last is one of the most picturesque in Surrey, with its moat, across which there is a fine view of the house, its half-timber work, the straight uprights placed close together signifying early work, and the striking character of the interior. From Wordnik.com. [Vanishing England] Reference
Even the same building sometimes shows walls of stone and brick, half-timber and plaster, half-timber and tile-hanging, half-timber with panels filled with red brick, and roofs of thatch or tiles, or stone slates which the Horsham quarries supplied. From Wordnik.com. [Vanishing England] Reference
A few miles from Scotney, possibly the old half-timber house of. From Wordnik.com. [Secret Chambers and Hiding Places Historic, Romantic, & Legendary Stories & Traditions About Hiding-Holes, Secret Chambers, Etc.] Reference
I find it awfully interesting to know so in detail about any past period of human life; as much so ... why not? ... as researches into which provinces of France used half-timber houses, and how late? ". From Wordnik.com. [The Brimming Cup] Reference
"half-timber" of smaller size between each two. From Wordnik.com. [Three Voyages for the Discovery of a Northwest Passage from the Atlantic to the Pacific, and Narrative of an Attempt to Reach the North Pole, Volume 2] Reference
Percy, half-timber. From Wordnik.com. [Dear Enemy] Reference
half-timber, 57, 74, 107. From Wordnik.com. [Vanishing England] Reference
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