What were homes like a long time ago? |
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500 BC |
AD 43 |
450 |
793 |
1485 |
1714 |
1837 |
1990+ |
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Walls Colt House Colt houses have a wooden frame |
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A Colt cottage |
Cedar tiles |
Weatherboard Houses Weatherboarding is the cladding or ‘siding’ of a house consisting of long thin boards that overlap one another horizontally on the outside of the wall. The boards are hung over bricks and protect the bricks from the weather, hence the name weatherboard. |
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