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# The timber framed house
- URL: https://www.digest.andymarshall.co/the-timber-framed-house/
- Published: 2018-04-17T18:51:11.000Z
- Updated: 2023-12-06T12:08:18.000Z
- Description: A medieval marval at Avoncroft
- Author: Andy  Marshall
- Tags: Historical, Travel, #exposure, #Import 2023-02-28 18:49

Over in the deepest corner at Avoncroft, there is a medieval marvel.

Precursor to our grid-iron skyscrapers.

Penetrated by pegged timbers and held together by tension.

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Fallen on hard times, saved, moved and here now in its final resting place.

Some say a sterile act - to move and reconstruct - better to leave and decay.

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But such notions dissipate upon entry into draughty voids beyond the whiplashed door.

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Inside the minutes slip by as the light reveals and conceals the lives of our forebears

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Their loves, fears and needs reflected in the way they built and organised.

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## With decanted light

through the ancient timbers along the wattle and daub -

The house resonates….

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## And suddenly, because of such things

> the people that once inhabited are alive again

> and there’s a different century coursing through my veins…

  
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