It still retains, however, among much of that reconstruction inevitable to a busy town, quite a large number of sixteenth and seventeenth century half-timbered houses.
When you get to the mouth of a river, for instance, you no longer look for thatched cottages or half-timbered houses or Tudor homesteads.
It is rich in ancient half-timbered houses, often standing in their original narrow wynds or rows.
The quaint streets of Shrewsbury not only retain their old names, such as Wyle Cop and Dogpole, but are filled with half-timbered houses of the fifteenth century.
But to a lover of architecture, the especial charm of Shrewsbury lies in its old black-timbered houses.
This, which bears the date 1580, is a particularly good specimen of the black-timbered houses so abundant in the valley of the Severn.
Tewkesbury has an abbey church, not so magnificent, but hardly less interesting than that of Worcester, while it is not less rich than Shrewsbury in black-timbered houses.
But one could spend days in the old-world streets, continually coming across fine half-timbered houses, with weather-beaten gables in subdued colors and rich antique oak carvings.
It is lined on either side with queer, half-timbered houses, and in one or two places these have sagged to such an extent that their tops are not more than two or three feet apart.
The above list will hopefully provide you with a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "timbered houses" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this group of words.
