2 R. J. Brown, The English Country Cottage (London, 1979), 105.

3 This form of sheathing is called weatherboarding or woodcladding in England today. But in the 17th century it was called clapboarding—a term which survives in the United States. On wooden clapboards as “indigenous to the South-east,” see R. J. Brown, English Farmhouses (London, 1982), 172. They were particularly common in Kent, Essex and eastern Hertfordshire near the Essex border.

4 These patterns are highly complex. To summarize briefly, framing techniques in East Anglia and New England were similar in the following respects:
   1. Crownposts and clasped purlins were common in the east; roof construction in other English regions (especially the north) ran more to king-posts (if box-built).
   2. Internal chimney-stacks were preferred to chimneys on gable ends.
   3. Tenons were secured by one or two pins at most, even on chimney girts.
   4. Roof-frames consisted of close-built principal and common rafters; rather than principal rafters, ridge pieces, and common purlins.
   5. Roof scantling (and other timbers) tended to be more slender than in the west and north of England.
   6. Bays were functionally spaced on the lower floor but regularly spaced on the upper floor.
   7. Windbraces in the roof sometimes rose above the purlins rather than falling below them.
The leading authorities are C. A. Hewett, The Development of English Carpentry, 1200-1700: An Essex Study (London, 1969); and “Some East Anglian Prototypes for Early Timber Houses in America,” PMA 3 (1969), 100-121; “Seventeenth Century Carpentry in Essex,” PMA 5 (1971), 77-087; and Cummings, Framed Houses of Massachusetts Bay, 95-117.