Les maisons à pans de bois dans la High Street à Lavenham, Suffolk, Angleterre, Royaume-Uni, comprennent (à gauche) no 6, construite en 1400s ou 1500s avec des gables jumeaux, et (à droite) 7-9, la Maison Crooked, construite vers 1395 dans le cadre d'une maison de hall médiévale, probablement pour un riche marchand de laine. Son pignon de devant penche de façon spectaculaire à gauche et aurait inspiré la vieille comptine rhyme de départ: «Il y avait un homme crooked, il a marché un mile crooked ...".
2832 x 4256 px | 24 x 36 cm | 9,4 x 14,2 inches | 300dpi
Date de la prise de vue:
22 août 2007
Lieu:
Lavenham, Suffolk, England, UK.
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Lavenham, Suffolk, England, UK: two of the oldest and most picturesque timber framed properties in this showpiece former medieval wool and cloth town stand together in the High Street. No. 6 (left) was built in the 15th or 16th century with a jettied upper storey resting on exposed joists, and twin pointed gables now enhanced by bargeboards. Nos. 7-9 (right), The Crooked House, is older, dating from about 1395. It was built as part of a medieval hall house, probably for a wealthy wool merchant. The jettied upper storey of the Crooked House leans dramatically to the left and it is said to have inspired the 'Crooked Man' English nursery rhyme: "There was a crooked man, he walked a crooked mile, he found a crooked six-pence upon a crooked stile; He bought a crooked cat, which caught a crooked mouse and they all lived together in a little Crooked House." Lavenham was once an important manufacturing and trading centre, with demand for its Lavenham Blue broadcloth making it one of England's richest towns, paying more tax than either Lincoln or York. In the 15th century, merchant clothiers were drawn to Lavenham and the town's prosperity then is shown by the size and grandeur of buildings such as its Gothic church, the Wool Hall of 1464, and the Guildhall of Corpus Christi, one of England's finest timber framed buildings. Lavenham is one of Britain's best preserved medieval settlements, with well over 300 buildings of architectural and historic importance. Ironically, this is partly due to the fact that it fell on hard times after its weavers moved to nearby Colchester. Its residents could no longer keep up with the latest architectural styles, and in the Georgian and Victorian eras, few could afford new house fronts. Many 'outmoded' medieval facades therefore survived. D0980.B1791
