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The Norfolk Historic Buildings Group is a voluntary group
whose passion is vernacular buildings. It spent several years
surveying buildings in New Buckenham as the first of their
studies of vernacular houses in a village context. The survey
results include work by the late Paul Rutledge, a local
resident, and a book was published in 2005. Part 2 describes
the detailed construction of each house surveyed and
discusses the dates of building uncovered by
dendrochronology, a technique involving analysing ring
patterns in the oak beams.
Although now out of print, the NHBG has kindly allowed
this publication to be available online. Please click the
buttons to see the book in PDF form. Part 2 is quite long.