Cruck framing, Leigh Court Barn, Worcester, EnglandThe Moirlanich Longhouse, a byre dwelling with a cruck frame
A cruck or crook frame is a curved timber, one of a pair, which support the roof of a building, historically used in England and Wales. This type of timber framing consists of long, generally naturally curved, timber members that lean inwards and form the ridge of the roof. These posts are then generally secured by a horizontal beam which then forms an "A" shape. Several of these "crooks" are constructed on the ground and then lifted into position. They are then joined together by either solid walls or cross beams which aid in preventing 'racking' (the action of each individual frame going out of square with the rest of the frame, and thus risking collapse).
A cruck or crook frame is a curved timber, one of a pair, which support the roof of a building, historically used in England and Wales. This type of timber...
information follows in English style below and at the main article Cruck. True cruck or full cruck: blades, straight or curved, extend from ground or foundation...
Cruckmeole is a small hamlet in Shropshire, England. It is located on the A488, where a lane which connects Cruckmeole to the B4386 crossroads at Cruckton...
/ 52.179361°N 2.317944°W / 52.179361; -2.317944 Leigh Court Barn is a cruck framed barn at Leigh, Worcestershire, England, built in the early fourteenth...
Herefordshire cruck barn at Avoncroft Museum of Historic Buildings in Bromsgrove, Worcestershire. A display of coracles is held in the Cruck Barn for the...
Midland houses are simpler, usually cruck houses where the roof and walls are supported by paired timbers called "cruck blades", but also some box-frame...
obsolete name for a purlin or support. Part of a cruck frame may function as a rafter but they are called a cruck blade. Rafters are usually made of pine or...
carried on the cruck frame. This style of structure developed as a solution to shortages of long-span timber. Surviving examples of the cruck style of architecture...
floors and is divided into separate rooms. In the grounds of the hall is a cruck barn dating from the beginning of the 17th century which was originally...
remains of a 13th-century monastic grange. Little remains of the original cruck frame structure. It has been constantly changed and now is a small sandstone...
hall was sold at auction in 2018. The building was originally an open-hall cruck-framed house, originating in the 13th century, later remodelled in the 16th...
Minworth Greaves is a timber cruck-framed, Grade II listed building in Bournville, an area of Birmingham, England. It is thought to date from the 14th-century...
building has been built in Penistone for the Market Place. This is an oaken Cruck Barn and was built by Carpenter Oak of Totnes, Devon. The Manchester, Sheffield...
Weather rock A weather stone at the Craven Arms pub and cruck barn, Barden, Craven, North Yorkshire, reputedly more accurate than Paul Hudson, the BBC...
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