Abstract
It is over 40 years since Oliver Rackham published his paper in VA 3 on the quantities of timber in Grundle House in Suffolk and the number and sizes of trees it consumed. His methodology is often quoted, but seldom re-used; surveys of only two other houses have been published. To these is now added 1 Coppard’s Bridge, an open-hall house of 1473d in the Low Weald of East Sussex, allowing comparison of four house types and their timber requirements to demonstrate the transition in methods of conversion of trees to timber during the medieval and post-medieval periods. This analysis, based on Oliver Rackham’s enduring work, marks his passing in February 2015 and his contribution to vernacular architecture studies.
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