|Assembly marks||see Carpenters' marks, below|
|Carpenters' Marks||Identifying numerals inscribed on parts of frame while in carpenters' yard|
to ensure correct assembly on site - see article by Martin Higgins
|Catslide||Downward Continuation of roof over outshot. (q.v.)|
|Chamfer||Surface made when square edge of timber is cut off at 45°|
|Cill||Beam resting on the ground into which all posts are morticed.|
Timber,brick or stone base of an opening.
|Cross entry||Entry to a hall through opposed doorways.|
|Cross passage||As cross entry but with a passage formed by a wall or partition. (Not common in Surrey)|
|Cruck||A pair of curved timbers holding up the ridge-beam of a roof.|
|Daub||A mixture of clay, dung & chopped straw used to fill wattle (q.v.) panels|
|Dormer||A window placed vertically in the sloping plane of a roof.|
|Durn|| Timber cut from a piece with a grown angle from which|
e.g. a door-frame with a shaped arch head can be formed.
|Garderobe||A small privy projecting from the upper storey of a house.|
|Lean-to||Addition at end/side of building under a lean-to roof|
|Muntin 1. Walls||Vertical member between panels in a panelled door or wall.|
|Used in the phrase 'plank-and-muntin wall' to describe a timber wall,|
sometimes found at the high end of an open hall.
|Muntin 2. Windows||A strip of wood completely separating panes of glass.|
|Before it was possible to manufacture large sheets of glass, big expanses of windows
could be glazed by using muntins to hold together many small panes.
|Midstrey||A projecting entrance above a door, usually found in agricultural buildings (e.g. barns)|
|usually below a hipped or gabled roof.|
|Oriel||A window projecting from the face of a building.|
|Outshot||Addition at end/side of building under a lean-to roof.|
|Scarf joints||Joints used to join timbers end to end.|
|Smoke bay||A short bay (central or end) sealed off from the upper part of the house as an escape for smoke.|
|Smoke hood||A timber-framed enclosure supported on the mantel beam of the hearth and tapering to|
an outlet on the roof - intermediary between Smoke bay and Chimney.
|Solar||The private upper room in a mediaeval house, above the parlour or the service room.|
|Spere||A short screen,normally by a door,to prevent draughts.|
Frequently only the mortice holes remain.
|Staddle stones||Originally used to raise tithe barns & granaries off the ground to keep produce|
|from spoliage by damp, mice or other vermin.|
|Stops||The decorative endings of a chamfer - on a beam, post, etc.|
|Wattle||Hazel or oak upright staves used to form panels - usually filled in with Daub (q.v.)|
|Wattle & Daub||see article by Martin Higgins|