Half Timbered

To return to the farm: the storehouse was a long red half-timbered building, where the hides were hung on rails to dry, their corners pegged out with wooden sticks. ❋ Unknown (2011)

It's been here for 60 years, housed in a 400-year-old, half-timbered building that stands beside the town hall on the high street. ❋ Unknown (2011)

The town, so long the site of pilgrimage, now hosts the forces of globalization: a thin-crust Italian pizzeria; a Starbucks in the half-timbered cottage adjoining the great arch. ❋ Unknown (2009)

• Le Trianon, avenue des Bains, Parc des Thermes, Allevard, +33 4 7671 9617, letrianon-allevard.frAlsace surprises the visitor, not just with the strange Germanic dialect and its colourful half-timbered gingerbread houses clustered in tiny villages surrounded by rolling vine-clad hills, but also with some of the country's finest cuisine. ❋ Unknown (2011)

This palace looks lovely from this cosy half-timbered inn where I am lodged but have yet to leave. ❋ Priya Parmar (2011)

The region's medieval towns and villages such as Colmar, Obernai, Ribeauvillé and Turckheim are absurdly picturesque with cobbled streets and half-timbered houses. ❋ Unknown (2011)

Places that failed to make the 'tentative' list include Blackpool, the former RAF airfield at Upper Heyford in Oxfordshire, the Rows shops and half-timbered houses in Chester, and Isambard Kingdom Brunel's Great Western Railway. ❋ Unknown (2011)

Within a 17th-century half-timbered house, at Le Bistro de Claude, some of the most powerful people in the cognac business are partaking of seriously good cuisine. ❋ Lennox Morrison (2011)

Today only the church remains.020-7836 5221The classic, half-timbered style that launched a thousand 20th-century "Tudorbethan" eyesores rarely reached Moreton's levels of artistry back in the day, but this fairy-tale edifice testifies to the continuous prosperity and experimentation of the era. ❋ Unknown (2011)

• London House, Rhosmaen Street 01558 822800, heavenlychoc.co.uk Simon Wright, partner of Y Polyn restaurant, CarmarthenshireThe much-loved half-timbered ice-cream shop on Henley-in-Arden's architecturally rich high street refrains from parading its heritage credentials. ❋ Unknown (2011)

True enough, Count Basie and his former show-girl-wife, Katherine Morgan, occupied a, brick, stone and half-timbered Tudor Revival style house on an expansive lot. ❋ Unknown (2010)

From the cathedral, wander through streets of half-timbered houses toward the glise Saint-Maclou and the abbey and church of St. Ouen. ❋ Unknown (2010)

Though there are some half-timbered buildings, a fine old GWR railway station with a new service to London Marylebone and what is described as the best market in Shropshire. ❋ Unknown (2008)

Up the road from the Center, on the other side of the dirt lane, there were four volcanically heated springs housed in ascending order of temperature in dim, echoey, half-timbered fieldstone bathhouses the size of one-car garages. ❋ Jonathan Nasaw (2010)

The half-timbered youth hostel had long since vanished behind the trees as I gazed forlornly back in its direction. ❋ Unknown (2010)

Jackie and Rachel Robinson would own their 'Mock-Tudor' half-timbered house, built at the close of the 1920s for a decade. ❋ Unknown (2010)