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From: list at marcusbuck.org
Subject: LL-L "History" 2008.02.27 (03) [E]

R. F. Hahn <sassisch at yahoo.com> hett schreven:

> I am wondering about the Lattice House in King's Lynn, situated on Chapel
> Street by Market Lane, in Jews Lane Ward. These days it houses a pub of
the
> Wetherspoon chain.
>
> Here is a picture: http://tinyurl.com/27c837.
> Here is a series: http://tinyurl.com/23vkwf
>
> It looks to me very, very much like a building of Northern Germany, and I
> wonder if there's a Hanseatic connection. Or is it typical of 16th-century
> buildings in Norfolk? If so, is it coincidental, or were contacts with the
> old country maintained?
>
> Reinhard/Ron

Timber framing was common in some parts of England too:
<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Timber_framing#The_English_tradition>.
And from Northern Germany I only know the square-shaped panels. The
elongated panels of Lattice House seem to fit better into the English
tradition.

Marcus Buck

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From: R. F. Hahn <sassisch at yahoo.com>
Subject: Architecture

Yes, Marcus, timber-framing is know very widely, but Northern Germany has
its own array of styles. The "typically" English style, as exemplified by
the pictures of Holborn and Wormshill on the page to which you referred us
(and also here: http://tinyurl.com/2wdssw) is rather different from the
North German style. Probably not as a matter of coincidence, it is pretty
close to the Norman style as exemplified by the the picture of Pont-Auderner
on the same page (and also here: http://tinyurl.com/39othl and here:
http://tinyurl.com/3xv27s). Note the narrow brickwork sections versus the
more square-like ones in Northern Germany. Southwestern (Alemannic) German
styles are not very different from the Norman and English styles (e.g.,
http://tinyurl.com/2ko5qq), and east of them there are the for curvy and
ornate Southern Frankish and Bavarian styles (e.g.,
http://tinyurl.com/2jr2rq).

The picture of Schwerin (http://tinyurl.com/3ytuw8) is an example of one
North German style. Some more here:

   - Urban:
   - Patrician houses:
      - Celle: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Image:Cellestreets.jpg
         - Hamburg:
         -
            http://home.fotocommunity.de/manfred/index.php?id=16968&d=288847
            -
            http://www.hamburg-bilder.com/index.php?section=cat&sub=66
            -
            http://www.kulturkarte.de/impressionen/Seiten/Kramer%20Amtsstuben.htm
            -
            http://www.fotocommunity.es/pc/pc/pcat/39068/display/194845
            - Brick Gothic style *(Tegelgothik*, *
      Backsteingothik*, *Tegelgotik*, *Tellisgootika*, *Gotico baltico
      *):
         - Stralsund:
         http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Image:Stralsund-1.jpg
         - Lunenburg:
         http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Image:AmSande.jpg
         - Lübeck:
            -
            http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Image:Lubeck-townhall-detail.JPG
            -
            http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Image:A_house_in_L%C3%BCbeck.jpg
            - http://www.artfuldiner.com/lubeck.jpg
            -
            http://www.hl-live.de/aktuell/bilder/holstentor4IMG03543.jpg
            - Rural (Saxon hall houses with crossed horse heads
   at the gable top):
   - Vierlande: http://nds.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bild:Rieckhuus_2.JPG
      - Wilsede:
      - http://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bild:Dat_ole_Hus_003.jpg
         - http://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bild:Wilsede_003_2.jpg
         - Walsrode:
      http://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bild:Walsrode_Heidemuseum.jpg
      - Fallingbostel:
      http://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bild:Hof_der_Heidmark.jpg

Interestingly, the hall house type is known in Danish as
*saksergård*("Saxons' farm(house)").

The Lattic House in King's Lynn, Norfolk (http://tinyurl.com/27c837,
http://tinyurl.com/23vkwf), reminds me more of Hanseatic buildings than on
English ones.

Regards,
Reinhard/Ron
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