The Weaver's Cottage Kilbarchan (Classic Reprint)

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Excerpt from The Weaver's Cottage KilbarchanThe building itself has a number of interest ing features. The northern half is of cruck structure, of which few examples remain in this part of Scotland, though it was a common method of building where timber was plentiful. With the cruck system the weight of the roof was carried, not by walls, but by a framework made of pairs of trusses formed of split, curved tree trunks, linked by purlins. (it was thus an anticipation of the modern steel-framed build ing, in which the roof is similarly carried on steel girders instead of on the walls.) Part of the ground ¿oor ceiling of the cottage has been cut away to show the cruck structure, and also the original roof construction of twigs covered with peat and thatch. The walls were builtfrom round boulders taken from the field, and cemented together with lime mortar, the exterior being lime washed.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully, any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.