half-timbered

American  

[haf-tim-berd, hahf-] / ˈhæfˈtɪm bərd, ˈhɑf- /

Or half-timber

adjective

1. (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-timbered British  

adjective

1. (of a building, wall, etc) having an exposed timber framework filled with brick, stone, or plastered laths, as in Tudor architecture

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Other Word Forms

• half-timbering noun

Etymology

Origin of half-timbered

First recorded in 1840–50

Example Sentences

Opposite a carved wooden water pump, built to mark Queen Victoria's Diamond Jubilee, near to the old Post Office and nestling next to a pink half-timbered teashop, is the Woolpit Institute.

From BBC • Apr. 18, 2023

The town, home to about 3,500 people along the Rhine, has passed down its folklore in vivid, richly detailed artwork on centuries-old buildings, many of them half-timbered structures.

From Washington Post • Jun. 24, 2022

Set on an acre surrounded by sycamores and oaks, the stately mansion features a half-timbered exterior of ivy-covered stone.

From Los Angeles Times • Dec. 3, 2021

His government bus took him to Strasbourg, a city of half-timbered houses on the German border and seat of the European Parliament.

From Seattle Times • Sep. 19, 2021

Conal had insisted on getting the cows and calves into a half-timbered paddock below Steve's, the day before, and had run a hundred of Maitland's fattened beasts with them.

From The Pioneers by Prichard, Katharine Susannah