Timber-framed houses and stone houses in Europe

[ficuscarica]

This is going to be an awesome thread.

[Ouistreham]

Southern Champagne is known for its many half-timbered churches. For some reason, these wonderful pieces of traditional craftmanship have been preserved there more than anywhere else:

[Pallantides]

Old wooden houses from East Norway















Some also lived in stone houses:

[ficuscarica]

Ouistreham, Awesome, really great to say so many kinds of timber-framed houses. I love the roof on the last building.

I can imagine this kind of buildings to fit in the Champagne landscape pretty well.

[ficuscarica]

@Pallantides: The third-last house looks like from a western movie.

[Vasconcelos]

Going for some stone ones, since timber structures are rather uncommon in Portugal.


These are from the so-called Aldeias do Xisto in Beira Baixa, worth a visit if you ever come to Portugal.

[Pallantides]

@Pallantides: The third-last house looks like from a western movie.

Norway was the wild west:

[Ouistreham]

In Alsace there's at least this nice little timber-framed church, in Kühlendorf Betschdorf:





In Normandy, probably only one timber-tramed church has survived, but this one is very famous: St Catherine in Honfleur, the wooden gothic wonder:

[ficuscarica]

These two timber-framed townhalls belong to the most beautiful ones in Baden, both are not far away from me. They look almost the same, but are different...

number 1:


number 2:


number 2:

[The Lawspeaker]

More Limburg:





A combination of old and new in Belgium:



Haus Horstkotte in Höxter, Germany:


The old town hall of Bamberg, Germany:


Mud woven filling of a timber frame building: