Hi It seems clear, then, that the thicker walls referred to earlier are not simply wattle and daub, although they may be composite structures incorporating a panel of wattle and daub combined with some other material to give a double skinned wall. Kathleen> From: [email protected]> To: [email protected]> Date: Thu, 24 May 2007 23:00:25 +0100> Subject: Re: [ENG-HANTS] Village website updates - Longstock> > No confusion here Moya, as daub was usually mud mixed with straw and water > and 'daubed' onto a wattle screen and allowed to dry thus a panel was made.> Whereas cob was usually a stone like mixture ( I did put stone on the > previous mail by mistake) and a couple of cottages one in particular in > Middle Wallop has cob with daub and wattle panels in front. As I said the > daub and wattle was a better insulator than cob and this is> what has been done here. There are one or two of these cottages in the > county but they are very rare as most just use one or the other.> Chris> > > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "M. Page" <[email protected]>> To: <[email protected]>> Sent: Thursday, May 24, 2007 7:28 PM> Subject: Re: [ENG-HANTS] Village website updates - Longstock> > > There seems to be some confusion over the differences between wattle and > daub and cob, and how they were used.> > Wattle and daub, was used to fill in between the wooden framework in timber > framed houses.> Made from straw, cow manure and clay, daub, in its raw state is is like a > thick plaster with bits in it. Wattle is rather like> hurdles (usually made from woven willow withies) of wood that were fixed > between the timber uprights of the house framing. Daub> was applied to the wattle, but they usually left the timber structural beams > exposed, which is all we now see of the frame in> timber framed houses.> To a degree it remained flexible and moved with the timber.> > Cob is a similar building material to daub, but used in a different way.> It was made from crushed chalk or clay, straw, sand and water and In > Hampshire,it seems, chalk was used extensively. The mix was> formed into large lumps or 'cobs'. They are pressed together to make thick, > self-supporting walls. You can usually tell a cob> built house as all the corners are rounded, and the walls are much thicker > that those of timber framed houses, simply because they> did not have any supporting structure.> > Cob sets to form a hard and durable wall, but can be easily eroded if not > covered with a impermeable roof, usually of thatch Cob> houses usually have an extened or exagerated roof to protect the house from > driven rain. Cob walls were usually thatched for the> same reason.> > There is a good example of a cob wall between Winchester and Romsey, that > has now been tiled, but in my youth it had a thatched top.> > My favourite Hampshire building material is brick and flint; they complement > each other beautifully. Reading through the pages of> Hampshire County Council's section 'Hampshire Treasures' there are > descriptions of all the different building forms used in the> past. www.hants.gov.uk/hampshiretreasures/> > Moya Page,> researching BANTING/BANTEN/BANTUM - One Name Study GOONS # 4570 > > > .............................................> Want to contact the local community?> Please visit Hampshire Parish Jottings> http://hants.parishjottings.org.uk> .............................................> > -------------------------------> To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to [email protected] with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message _________________________________________________________________ Try Live.com: where your online world comes together - with news, sports, weather, and much more. http://www.live.com/getstarted