Nice discourse Ken, and I salute the intention and spirit you express in your closing paragraph. Thanks for moving this whole jetty thing to its own topic.
I'm still curious about average jetty/overhang dimentions. Can you put a figure on it for homes? Is it usually enough to walk under? Is there a percentage of the building size that's typically jettied? And does it occur both eave and gable? And if so are they called the same?
Is wealden only on an eave wall? Or can this too be along the gable?
Jetty is found in abundance here in the US in the form of the Garrison house. My own childhood home was this type. And what about the split foyer of the 1970s? would that be classified as jetty? And the doorway/front entrance that's often set in on a split foyer... would this be wealden? Or should we not even consider "modern" stick-frame homes in this discourse?
The Garrison house takes its design from the forts (or garrisons) once popular in this county's pioneering days. I wonder what advantage this overhang/jetty gave in defense? Could defense have been an origin for the design in Europe?
Or could it be of entirely innocent beginings? Say as a shield from the noonday sun?
