Timber framing
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Timber framing and "post-and-beam" construction are traditional methods of building with heavy timbers, creating structures using squared-off and carefully fitted and joined timbers with joints secure
The market square of Dornstetten, Germany, showing an ensemble of half-timbered buildings
Rue du Gros-Horloge in Rouen, France, a city renowned for its half-timbered buildings
Lemgo, Germany, downtown
Strasbourg, sculptures on the timber framing of a half-timbered house.
Jettying
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Jettying is a building technique used in medieval timber-frame buildings in which an upper floor projects beyond the dimensions of the floor below. This has the advantage of increasing the available s
A double jettied timber-framed building. The ends of the multiple cantilevered joists supporting the upper floors can easily be seen.
A jettied portion of the façade from a 16th century London house is preserved in the Daylit Gallery of the Victoria and Albert Museum (also note the "carell" windows).
The under-side of jetties in Germany are sometimes decorated and called a windbrett (wind board). This is an example of a jetty supported on brackets.
Paul Revere House Boston, Massachusetts, US, built 1680. This is framed on a few cantilevered beams.