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• The region's medieval towns and villages such as Colmar, Obernai, Ribeauvillé and Turckheim are absurdly picturesque with cobbled streets and half-timbered houses. Budget wine trips in France
• Most of the buildings on Cypress sported facades of English Tudor half-timber-ing, which made Pine Cove an anomaly among the coastal communit-ies of California with their predominantly Spanish-Moorish architec-ture. Practical Demonkeeping
• The gargoyles are functionless and the half-timbered effect of the East wing, which is a later addition and houses a billiard room, is entirely bogus, the timbers being painted on to a surface of scabrous cement.
• The farm consists of two main buildings - the farmhouse, which dates from the 15th century and is a half-timbered, low-slung gabled building, and a huge barn flanking it.
• The half-timbered car came to a halt beneath a creeper-hung cliff and an elderly woman climbed out. THE MAIN CAGES
• half-timbered Tudor houses
• Victorian sham Queen Anne style of architecture, with sham half-timbering of chocolate-painted plaster in the gables, Lincrusta Tales of Space and Time
• Today only the church remains.020-7836 5221The classic, half-timbered style that launched a thousand 20th-century "Tudorbethan" eyesores rarely reached Moreton's levels of artistry back in the day, but this fairy-tale edifice testifies to the continuous prosperity and experimentation of the era. The Renaissance in Britain: examples from the era
• Auxerre is vital, for the striking riverscape, the half-timbered streets and the sense of a provincial capital complete unto itself. Times, Sunday Times
• Half-timbered buildings, all pastel-shaded, push out over them, looking terribly wonky - as they've doubtless looked for 700 years.