wattle-and-daub

They had tall, pointy, gabled roofs which, along with their wattle-and-daub walls, were carefully plastered and beautifully painted in bright colors.

Guachimontones: unearthing a lost world near Teuchitlan, Jalisco 2009

They had tall, pointy, gabled roofs which, along with their wattle-and-daub walls, were carefully plastered and beautifully painted in bright colors.

Guachimontones: unearthing a lost world near Teuchitlan, Jalisco 2009

The gradual growth also explains the irregular plan and clashing patterns of the framework, and the Renaissance touches that appear here and there, in the carvings and the fireplaces.01260 272018"Hardwick Hall, more glass than wall", as the saying used to go, and for a nation more used to wattle-and-daub huts, the huge windows of Hardwick must have seemed like an exotic fantasy.

The Renaissance in Britain: examples from the era 2011

Wood construction = wattle-and-daub, heavy timber, mill construction, balloon frame, western-frame, stick-building is probably the most effectively durable means of construction known to man.

The urban age: how cities became our greatest design challenge yet « Stephen Rees's blog 2010

They were passing through a little village, some wattle-and-daub houses with thatched roofs gathered around a square.

Agent Q, or The Smell Of Danger! M. T. Anderson 2010

They were passing through a little village, some wattle-and-daub houses with thatched roofs gathered around a square.

Agent Q, or The Smell Of Danger! M. T. Anderson 2010

One evening, Else introduced her brother to another RAF pilot, who lived in a particularly ancient wattle-and-daub house a short walk away, with his young wife and two small boys.

Storyteller Donald Sturrock 2010

I liked the way the wattle-and-daub walls, baked by the sun to a biscuit, were cratered all over where they faced south, like the peepholes of a Yemeni city, by nesting mason bees or solitary wasps.

Wildwood Roger Deakin 2009

I liked the way the wattle-and-daub walls, baked by the sun to a biscuit, were cratered all over where they faced south, like the peepholes of a Yemeni city, by nesting mason bees or solitary wasps.

Wildwood Roger Deakin 2009

The building must have been there for centuries, the wattle-and-daub battlements baked solid over hundreds of years by the relentless heat, impervious to almost everything thrown against them.

An Ordinary Soldier Doug Beattie MC With Philip Gomm 2008