The palette

Stone, andesite, tuff and cobblestone rubble with mossy cobblestone near the ground for the walls; smooth stone and stone bricks for the quoins, stone brick stairs for the arches and buttress weatherings, polished andesite and its stairs for the sills, kneelers and copings, andesite walls for the cross finials; mud bricks with some granite for the great tiled roof; dark oak logs and stairs for the frame; spruce for the doors, hoods and swung-open trapdoors; packed mud and spruce planks for the floors; hay bales in the bays.

Techniques

• Buttresses on the trusses
• An aisled oak frame
• A massive steep roof
• Raised coped gables
• Cart porches

The steps

1. Stone plinth and the threshing floors
2. Long walls of rubble stone and their slits
3. Stepped buttresses at every truss
4. Two cart porches and their pointed doorways
5. Raised gables with cross-shaped owl holes
6. Oak posts on stone pads
7. Arcade plates, tie beams and braces
8. Queen posts, collars and rafters
9. Purlins and the ridge beam
10. The great roof
11. Porch roofs
12. Door hoods on the north side
13. Hay in the bays and the lanterns

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