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Carolin Lowry
The Manor House
Eardisland
Herefordshire, UK HR6 9BN
Tel. 01544 388138
Black and White Visitor Centre
East St.
Pembridge, HR6 9HA
Tel. 01544 388761
Kington Tourist Information Centre
2 Mill St,
Kington, HR5 3BQ
Tel. 01544 230778.
Open: April-end Oct, 10am-1pm and 2-5pm.
Leominster Tourist Information Centre
1 Corn Square
Leominster, HR6 8LR
Tel. 01568 616460
Open: Easter-end Sep, Mon-Fri, 9.30am-5pm; Sat from 9am-5pm; Oct-Easter, Mon-Sat,
9.30am-4pm
Leominster Folk Museum
Etnam Street, HR6 8AL
Tel. 01568 615186
Open: April-Oct, Mon-Fri, 10.30am-4pm; St, 10.30am-2pm; in winter, Mon-Fri,
11am-4pm
Hergest Croft Gardens
Kington, HR5 3EG
Tel. 01544 230160
Website: Hergest Croft Gardens
Open: weekends in March, 12.30-5pm; daily from April-end Oct, until 6pm in May
and June.
Tearoom, gift shop, plant sales
Black and White Villages Cycle Ride
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The Chequers public house, Etnam Street, Leominster
Visit the Chequers for a real black and white drinking experience
Herefordshire Map
Old Merchants House Tea Rooms and Antiques Centre
A period service in the period setting of The Old Merchant House in Corn Square, with an extensive antique showroom attached
Avoncroft Museum of Historic Buildings
The Manor House, Eardisland, Leominster
An hotel with many excellent features
Buttercross at the Grange, Leominster, Herefordshire
Timber-frame buildings
Welcome to Black and White timber frame buildings. This site is dedicated to black and white or timber-framed [oak frame] buildings generally, as well as modern timber-frame building.
This site is a celebration of these simple, ecological and robust houses which have withstood the test of time throughout the British Isles since the fourteenth century, are lived in to this day, and are still being built by carpenters, timber-frame builders and self builders today.
14th century vernacular timber-frame building
Some villages and even towns in some counties have predominantly black and white or, more accurately, timber-framed, houses with wattle and daub walls and cruck frames. Cruck frames were a very common technique in building. A cruck-frame consists of a pair of curved timbers (the cruck blades), which were often cut from one tree. A collar (and sometimes a tie-beam) joins the blades together. An example of a cruck frame can be seen in this house in Ledbury, Herefordshire.
Originally, black and white buildings weren't black and white, but the natural colour of the oak beams and the colour of the soil in the locality, mixed with lime and ox blood- some can still be seen in this original condition today. They are all individual timber-framed buildings, built by carpenters who had spent long apprenticeships learning their craft, no two houses are alike but were crafted for their owners from trees growing close by. Larger buildings such as inns and barns were built by many hands in co-operation and to the design of an architect of grand buildings.
It is a myth that they were built from recycled ships' timbers as the timber would have been too hard to work with hand tools. A few close to the coast may have been so constructed, or had ship's timbers incorporated into them, but the effort to transport heavy timber long distances would have prevented this inland. They were commonly constructed from green timbers cut from freshly felled trees chosen for the job.
This site is intended as a resource on the subject of black and white timber frame buildings from 14th century wattle and daub to the present day. If anyone connected with this subject, either professional or amateur, wishes to submit information, photographs and articles, to display on the site, we are happy to oblige. Copyright of all materials will reside with the original copyright holder.
Contact us for details of advertising rates including banner ads. Whatever you or your company does, whether repairs to listed buildings, manufacture of on-site assembled modern timber-framed homes, and products and services related to conservation and preservation of old timber frame buildings, we want to hear from you, and you may wish to have a presence here, the home for black and whites and timber framed buildings on the net. More information on vernacular building.
Send us your photographs
If you own and live in one of the many timber frame houses in the UK, and would like to add your house [or shop, barn, tea room, pub etc.] to our database and your picture to our pages, email us and attach a picture file [jpg preferred], plus details such as location, approx. year built if known, special features etc., and we will add it to the slideshow. If at any point in the future you decide to sell it, you can easily add a 'for sale' sign here, or even, for a small sum, have a dedicated page just for your black and white house with extensive photographs including interiors, plus information and contact details for potential buyers to get in touch.
Black and white based businesses
If you run a hotel or b&b in a timber frame building, we definitely want to hear from you to promote you. Many of our overseas visitors will be looking for information prior to a visit, and what better place to advertise your business, set as it is in a beautiful, traditional wood-framed building which they are keen to experience first hand. We can place your supplied ad or create one to your spec. and place it prominantly on the site.
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