Illustrated Architecture Dictionary

Half-timber(ed)(ing)

Having a load-bearing timber framework with the spaces filled with masonry or plaster

Nogging: brick masonry used to fill the spaces between the members of a timber frame

Wattle: a framework of rods or poles interwoven with thin branches, twigs, and reeds

Daub (pronounced: dawb): a soft, adhesive coating material, such as plaster, grease, or mud

Wattle and daub: a form of wall construction, consisting of wattles, covered and plastered with clay or mud.

Fachwerk: In Germany, half-timbered houses are known as fachwerk,  and may date back as far as the 12th century.

Used in English Elizabethan period

Wattle and daub used by Romans in 1 BC.

Found in Tudor Revival, Stick Arts & Crafts, Queen Anne, Prairie styles

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Examples from Buffalo architecture:

• Illustration above: Jewett M. Richmond House
  
  
• William Sydney Wicks House
  
  
• Church of the Advent
  
  
• Saturn Club
  
  
• William H. Hotchkins House, 20 Lincoln Pkwy.
  
  
• 60 Argyle
  
  
• Franklin W. Caulkins House, 415 Franklin Street
  
  
• Bush/Depew House
  
  
• Louis Greenstein House

Other examples:

• Wattle and daub: Shakespeare House, Stratford-Upon-Avon, England
  
  
• Shakespeare House, Stratford-Upon-Avon, England
  
  
• Salisbury, England
  
  
• Dallas bungalow