Research from 'Investigating Old Buildings' Lance Smith, Batsford Academic and Educational London 1985
TIMBER FRAMES AND JOINT
When originally built the roof structure was known to consist of several 'bays'. Bays are the units defined by cross frames. They are any size depending on the purposes of the rooms they were creating. Today viewing the bay divisions may give us an idea of what the original space division had been even when the spacing below has been completely altered.
There are various ways in which timbers may be connected to each other. the diagram below shows some of the ways most commonly used in the construction of the timber roof frames.
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