Half-timbered houses of the Tudor and Elizabethan periods in Britain

Abstract

Now half-timbered English houses, upholstered on facades with slanting boards that exhibit architectonics of the framework, and laconically painted in black (brown)-white, are gradually becoming a sign of good taste in the construction of other European countries. However, there are almost no scholars who studied the half-timbered buildings of Britain in Ukraine; however, progressively the fashion for such buildings extends to our country. The article is devoted to the monuments of half-timbered architecture of the late Gothic period (1500-1560s – during the Tudor era (1485-1603) and the Renaissance, the epoch of the Elizabethan style (1558-1603) – the time of the highest prosperity of England. In the specified century, the foundations of folk architecture of Britain were laid, based on the legacy of German Gothic building techniques. Now the traditional half-timbered houses of England, Scotland, Ireland and Wales are not only preserved and protected by law in the UK but also undergo a time of quality renovation and a new fashion boom. In this regard, it is relevant to study their unique artistic-figurative and technological features, as well as the specifics of arranging interiors in such buildings, gradually starting to capture not only the inhabitants of Northern Europe, but also its East.