Many of the houses to be seen on the Black & White Village Trail are timber-framed - that is, Fine examples of Black and White the framework of the house is building can be found throughout the built from green (unseasoned) county of Herefordshire although the VILLAGE TRAIL oak, and the panels are infilled greatest concentration is in the Black & White with lath - woven strips of wood north-west of the County. - and plaster. Occasionally, Discover the delightful Black panels would be infilled with Some other examples of fine and White villages of North brick. Panels had limewash Black and White architecture Herefordshire, set in the applied, often tinted with can be found at: beautiful and historic natural pigments. The idea of decorating timber-framed Lower Brockhampton borderlands of houses by painting the beams black (National Trust Property) England and and the panels white is a surprisingly Bringsty, Nr. Bromyard Wales recent one. Many of the houses date Market House, Ledbury from the 16th and 17th C. or earlier, Church Lane, Ledbury when timbers were often left The Old House, High Town, Hereford unpainted to weather naturally, while the panels were painted with pigmented limewash - sometimes both beams and panels were limewashed. In the 18th C. when stucco and stone finishes became fashionable, many houses had their timbers plastered over. Telephone 01432 260621 19th C. photographs of Herefordshire show houses which now have exposed beams, but which For further details on were then covered in plaster. the Black & White Villages contact: The practice of painting the beams Leominster Tourist Information Centre ! T 01568 616460 d e black and panels white, in part to it n h E
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