Tudor Houses
By Audrey Wolz
Building materials used
They were built using wood and wattle and daub. Wattle is intertwined sticks that are put in a wall in between posts. Daub is a mixture of clay, sand, and dung that is smeared (daubed) into and over the wattle to make the wall.
Wattle
Intertwined sticks
Daub
Some daub was painted with limewash to make it white
Wooden timbers
The wooden timbers were painted with tar to keep from rotting
About the time period
- They were built in the 1500's, originally in England
- Became popular in the 1920's and 1930's
- The "tudor" homes were named after king Henry VIII
- The fashion in the 1920's included: flapper dresses, long jackets, and long dresses
- High end homes were usually $80,000 at the time
- Some famous people were: Henry Ford, and Babe Ruth
- Something that influenced housing during that time would be that things were starting to get more urban rather than being rural