An Early Fifteenth-Century Warwickshire Cruck House Using Joggled Halvings

Nos 1–2 Ufton Fields, Ufton, is a notable survival of an early fifteenth-century peasant house, most probably associated with a one- or two-yardland holding. The architectural evidence demonstrates that it comprised three bays, all single-storeyed, with a single-bay chamber and a two-bay hall. Although one end truss has been removed, the truss numbering indicates that this house is complete as it survives. The consistent felling dates of the primary timbers strongly suggest that it was built in the summer of 1407d. The central truss of the hall is notable for having joggle-halved arch braces, a regional alternative to the more usual tenoned braces. The later division of the hall into a hall and a kitchen, both heated, may well reflect a separation in function established before the space was physically partitioned.Upper floors in all three bays and two fireplaces were inserted in the later sixteenth century, one of the floor beams being dated to 1588/9d. A short timber-framed bay was added at one end, probably in the seventeenth century, and a stone-walled bay was attached in the eighteenth century. By the nineteenth century (or earlier), the house was converted into three (later four) cottages

Ancient history · Archaeology · Art · Bay · Felling · Fifteenth · Geography · Peasant · Truss · Historical Architecture and Urbanism · History · Forestry

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