Staunton Court

I used to live in Ledbury in Herefordshire a beautiful market town filled with timber framed buildings. A few miles from Ledbury and somewhere I used to pass every day is this beautiful building at an old farm called Staunton Court, the lake is now a commercial fishing lake open to anglers. I was driving by today and decided to slam on the brakes to get a quick snap.

This type of building is very common around this area, a timber frame structure with the gaps between the timbers filled with wattle and daub which is interwoven wooden strips (wattle) coated in a plaster/clay type substance made from clay, manure and straw etc (daub) and left to dry to form the hard surface between, sometimes the wattle and daub was replaced by bricks as seen here. Historically these buildings would have been painted with 'paints' made from natural pigments from the ground or animal blood etc...haven't buildings changed!