Cob greetings

Thu Jan 22 09:34:38 CST 1998

Andrew Scotney wrote:

> So far as I am aware wattle & daub is used only as non-structural
> infil panels in timber framed buildings.
>
> However, where abouts in England did your mother come from?
>
> We live in Lincolnshire in a 'mud & stud' cottage, which  is a sort of
> hybrid of a cob and a timber framed building.
>
> Mud & stud buildings contain a (relatively light weight) timber frame
> (either just posts seated  on pad-stones or else posts joined into a
> sill-beam over a plinth.) The walls are then built up as follows;
> horizontal rails are fixed between the vertical posts, vertical laths
> are fixed to the rails, and a cob-like mix is then built up around the
> laths. Mud and stud walls are typically 8 - 12" thick, making them
> thicker than wattle & daub (typically 3-4", I think), but thinner than
> conventional cob. The timber frame is only visible internally. In
> theory both the frame and the earth wall have a structural role. (Our
> cottage is a little over 300 years old).
>
> Andrew Scotney.>
>

Andrew,

The house that my mother grew up in is in Chinnor in Oxfordshire.
It is called "Fourways".  I would arrange for you to go visit but
unfortunately my grandmother sold the house a few years ago.
It is close to a fourway intersection and hence the name, and as I
recall (from 25 years ago) there was a pub across the street.

In a brief discussion with my mother ( when I was lamenting that she had
not passed on this family knowledge to me ) she said the walls were at
least two feet thick, unlike your specs for true wattle and daub.
Although, again it is my grandmother who maintains that it is wattle and
daub as opposed to cob.

It looks to me like every other cob house with the thick walls,
whitewash(?) and thatched roof.

I am told that it is almost 400 years old, and was originally built as
an inn, where Oliver Cromwell is reported to have spent the night.

If you should go take a look at the house, please let me know what you
determine.

thanks,
pv
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<PRE>So far as I am aware wattle & daub is used only as non-structural
infil panels in timber framed buildings.

However, where abouts in England did your mother come from?

We live in Lincolnshire in a 'mud & stud' cottage, which  is a sort of
hybrid of a cob and a timber framed building.

Mud & stud buildings contain a (relatively light weight) timber frame
(either just posts seated  on pad-stones or else posts joined into a
sill-beam over a plinth.) The walls are then built up as follows;
horizontal rails are fixed between the vertical posts, vertical laths
are fixed to the rails, and a cob-like mix is then built up around the
laths. Mud and stud walls are typically 8 - 12" thick, making them
thicker than wattle & daub (typically 3-4", I think), but thinner than
conventional cob. The timber frame is only visible internally. In
theory both the frame and the earth wall have a structural role. (Our
cottage is a little over 300 years old).

Andrew Scotney.></PRE>
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<BR>Andrew,

The house that my mother grew up in is in Chinnor in Oxfordshire.
 It is called "Fourways".  I would arrange for you to go visit
but unfortunately my grandmother sold the house a few years ago.
 It is close to a fourway intersection and hence the name, and as I
recall (from 25 years ago) there was a pub across the street.

In a brief discussion with my mother ( when I was lamenting that she
had not passed on this family knowledge to me ) she said the walls were
at least two feet thick, unlike your specs for true wattle and daub.
 Although, again it is my grandmother who maintains that it is wattle
and daub as opposed to cob.

It looks to me like every other cob house with the thick walls, whitewash(?)
and thatched roof.

I am told that it is almost 400 years old, and was originally built
as an inn, where Oliver Cromwell is reported to have spent the night.

If you should go take a look at the house, please let me know what you
determine.

<P>thanks,
<BR>pv</HTML>

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