The white appearance in English architecture is due to the use of lime (lime stone that has been cooked in a kiln until all the oxidized air is backed out of it leaving quick lime as favoured by gangsters with a shovel and a bag of lime in the boot of there car) which when dried made the plaster look white, the plaster was made using a mix of clay, straw and lime and indeed also the Saxon's used pig and human poo in it, the use of wattle and daub though goes back to about 4000 BC as far as we can tell and maybe even earlier.
The style you are seeing in Tlaffoon's wonderful work is exposed timber frame buildings and what they did was construct a frame then clad the lower story in stone with the upper story having a woven birch cladding much like a woven fence, then the wattle and daub was smeared over it and smoothed.
Though it sound's horrible the use of poo was because, well have you ever tried to get it off your foot when you stand in it after some dog walker as forgotten to pick it up?. it stick's and when it dries it bond's the other materials (Straw, clay or mud and lime - in England anyway) together and some of this type of building have lasted over 500 years with only repairs and much of there original timber and even wattle surviving.
The Romans also used it and also used Lime, some building's at Herculaneum attest to this.
Square recognizable house type buildings in Nordic country's are not that rare either with fairly modern looking homes having existed as long back as 2 to 3 thousand BC but also more primitive type's of home such as burrow's and rough smelly but warm shacks and hut's having still been in use right up to the early middle ages, it is not inconceivable that they too knew of wattle and daub as it is a simple construction technique that would have been favoured by slightly wealthier peasants thought the ruin's of early Viking period settlements and excavation's show no similar construction at that time, they were ship builders so they build there home's using pure carpentry, the Saxon on the other hand may have reintroduced it to Britain at least as early as the eighth century.
This is cool the picture's are by some kid's and I love em. http://anglosaxondiscovery.ashmolean.org/Life/settlement/houses_info.html http://www.lore-and-saga.co.uk/html/viking_and_saxon_buildings.html
It's nice to see someone who spends as much time as I do in their research. And as it so happens I've created the wattle fences with and without daub in various states. Though I think my peasants will use straw, clay and lime rather than poo lol
Now an inn like that deserve's ghost or two, very nice English Tudor Elizabethan style, once most buildings in city's like chester were like this with wattle and daub upper level's and stone ground floor's.
Later it became a style and the upper storys though brick were clad to look like wattle and daub such as this old pub in Aintree Liverpool england, a supposedly very haunted pub called the Old Roan. http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/d/d7/The_Old_Roan%2C_Aintree_-_geograph.org.uk_-_1842752.jpg
I am hoping you might consider doing a full retexture or model replacement for city's like solitude and falkreath as this is marvellous, this would go good with a stable out the back like the old royal coaching houses that used to served the Royal mail when it was the only means of communication, they would have them ever 20 to 30 miles and of course as well as an inn and rest stop they served as a horse change station so that fast letters could be rushed and a new team of horses hitched to the mail stage coach.
Thanks for the feedback I'm sure someone can make a haunted version as I plan to include a large cellar and things for the interior.
I like the idea though it would be quite ambitious as this model took about 5-6 hours to finish, but it also has much more detail in the woodwork than most models(as in it is completely structurally sound). I will probably have quite a few models that can be used for the idea when I'm done though. And as it so happens I'm planing to make a stable to match the inn along with a few other things.
Its for a castle hamlet for a future mod. It will match up well with the castle as its 13th century along with this building, so its not really meant to integrate completely with the buildings in skyrim. As well I plan to sell the architecture by using a foreign architect. But I really don't think this building is a far cry from the present riften architecture besides the roof being at a higher slope due to the thatched roof. And most of the buildings seen in Skyrim are quite old if you look at those introduced in the hearhfire dlc it offers a more accurate representation of newer building styles which is more on par with this one.
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It give a medieval appareance
The style you are seeing in Tlaffoon's wonderful work is exposed timber frame buildings and what they did was construct a frame then clad the lower story in stone with the upper story having a woven birch cladding much like a woven fence, then the wattle and daub was smeared over it and smoothed.
Though it sound's horrible the use of poo was because, well have you ever tried to get it off your foot when you stand in it after some dog walker as forgotten to pick it up?. it stick's and when it dries it bond's the other materials (Straw, clay or mud and lime - in England anyway) together and some of this type of building have lasted over 500 years with only repairs and much of there original timber and even wattle surviving.
The Romans also used it and also used Lime, some building's at Herculaneum attest to this.
Square recognizable house type buildings in Nordic country's are not that rare either with fairly modern looking homes having existed as long back as 2 to 3 thousand BC but also more primitive type's of home such as burrow's and rough smelly but warm shacks and hut's having still been in use right up to the early middle ages, it is not inconceivable that they too knew of wattle and daub as it is a simple construction technique that would have been favoured by slightly wealthier peasants thought the ruin's of early Viking period settlements and excavation's show no similar construction at that time, they were ship builders so they build there home's using pure carpentry, the Saxon on the other hand may have reintroduced it to Britain at least as early as the eighth century.
This is cool the picture's are by some kid's and I love em.
http://anglosaxondiscovery.ashmolean.org/Life/settlement/houses_info.html
http://www.lore-and-saga.co.uk/html/viking_and_saxon_buildings.html
Later it became a style and the upper storys though brick were clad to look like wattle and daub such as this old pub in Aintree Liverpool england, a supposedly very haunted pub called the Old Roan.
http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/d/d7/The_Old_Roan%2C_Aintree_-_geograph.org.uk_-_1842752.jpg
I am hoping you might consider doing a full retexture or model replacement for city's like solitude and falkreath as this is marvellous, this would go good with a stable out the back like the old royal coaching houses that used to served the Royal mail when it was the only means of communication, they would have them ever 20 to 30 miles and of course as well as an inn and rest stop they served as a horse change station so that fast letters could be rushed and a new team of horses hitched to the mail stage coach.
I like the idea though it would be quite ambitious as this model took about 5-6 hours to finish, but it also has much more detail in the woodwork than most models(as in it is completely structurally sound). I will probably have quite a few models that can be used for the idea when I'm done though. And as it so happens I'm planing to make a stable to match the inn along with a few other things.
and so I end my rambling..