The Use of Vertical Timber Cladding in Conjunction with the Platform Frame in Urban Scotland during the Sixteenth Century

摘要

The cases for the use of timber as the principal structural material, roof cladding material, and wall cladding material, in high status domestic urban structures in Medieval and post-Medieval Scotland have already been made. This accepted, the available Scottish evidence does not sit comfortably with the perceived pattern of development of the English timber frame nor does the terminology correspond. The logical response to these profound differences is to suggest an independent tradition possibly stemming from early Celtic timber traditions but taking inspiration from northern European practices.