half-timbering

• a word derived from half-timbered.
  half-timbered

  adjective

  (of a house or building) having the frame and principal supports of timber and the interstices filled in with masonry, plaster, or the like.

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half-timbering

This is a look immediately recognizable by its half-timbering: dark wooden beams standing out against a pale stucco background.

From Washington Post ● Nov. 19, 2022

The distinctive facade features stone, stucco, half-timbering, shingles and decorative woodwork.

From Washington Post ● Nov. 18, 2021

Past a façade of flagstone and half-timbering, it opens to a two-story floor plan with five bedrooms and five bathrooms.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 23, 2019

Water issues vexed the roof and foundation, she says; outside, impostor paint had replaced the rotted and fallen half-timbering, and the cracked white stucco also had to go.

From Seattle Times ● Nov. 25, 2016

The use of half-timbering, when the face of a building consisted of woodwork and plaster, made houses and streets very picturesque.

From Life in a Mediæval City Illustrated by York in the XVth Century by Edwin Benson

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