An Unusual Roof Truss for Upper Rooms with Low Side Walls

Nine buildings have been found, the majority in a small area of Gloucestershire, with a similar type of roof truss, not known elsewhere. The truss depends on a diagonal brace from the floor beam to the wall head, with no tiebeam, truncated or otherwise. All examples date from the mid-seventeenth to the early-eighteenth century

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