| A 16 th century or earlier cruck hall made uninhabitable by people who cut a doorway through the main cruck blade leaving 1 ½”. It has some original wattle and daub panels. The new first floor handcut beam is shown and a new spliced foot to the cruck blade to replace the bottom rooted away with damp.
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You can imagine the destruction of this blade by the people who cut a doorway at first floor level, through what they thought was a plasterboard partition with a strange bit of wood in it. The first floor beam was replaced with softwood and packed up, in vain attempts to respond as the building slowly moved towards collapse. |
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The cruck blade has been replaced to a point beyond the doorway and a replacement strut and lap dovetailed wall plate tie that were previously removed have been refitted. After the blades had been repaired we replaced the softwood floor/tie beam with an oak beam to fit the original housings. You can see the handcut nature of this beam from this photo |
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