Hi Derek,

The Town Wealden was duly recorded last weekend with the layout and timber sizes all now noted. Some of the timbers are surprisingly large with the full height rear post head jowls weighing in at 15.5" x 9". It is a three bay building with two open bays at ground level and upper floors at both ends projecting to form a jettied front with recessed centre bay resulting in a 16 x 32 ft footprint. Quite a small but perfectly formed hall house.

I shall in due course produce a cross section and analysis of same to see what level of stress, bending moment, shear and deflections that this frame has been subject to for the past 550 years.

I now need to figure out how to make this information available and I like your book suggestion and title but with all this information technology available to us I wonder if we couldn't do this more easily.

Ideas please ?

Regards

Ken Hume
http://www.kfhume.freeserve.co.uk