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Kilbarchan
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The Weaver's Cottage Kilbarchan (Classic Reprint)
Excerpt from The Weaver's Cottage Kilbarchan The building itself has a number of interest ing features. The northern half is of cruck structure, of which few examples remain in this part of Scotland, though it was a common method of building where timber was plentiful. With the cruck system the weight of the roof was carried, not by walls, but by a framework made of pairs of trusses formed of split, curved tree trunks, linked by purlins. (it was thus an anticipation of the modern steel-framed build ing, in which the roof is similarly carried on steel girders instead of on the walls.) Part of the ground floor ceiling of the cottage has been cut away to show the cruck structure, and also the ...
