No. 173 High Street, Berkhamsted, Hertfordshire: An Analysis of a Thirteenth-Century Urban Timber-Framed Building

Abstract

Recent analysis and dendro-dating have established that No. 173, High Street, Berkhamsted, rather than serving as a shop as had hitherto been thought, was most likely the jettied service wing to a now lost aisled hall house, and among the oldest jettied ranges surviving in an urban context (last quarter of the thirteenth century). It also represents an early example of the transition in carpentry technology from the use of passing braces to crown posts.