Pendean
This photograph shows Pendean Farmhouse, a 16th century timber-framed building which originally stood in East Sussex. Naturally, enough, over the course of 400 years it had been altered and adapted, with extensions here, and new windows there, so that it bore little resemblance to the house which its first owner knew. When a gravel mining company applied to demolish the building they were given permission on one condition: the house must be carefully dismantled and transported to the Weald and Downland Museum. Here it was re-erected in its original form, without any of the modern features .
Although the upper floor of Pendean is timber-framed, the bottom half is brick-built, and the roof is tiled. These developments made possible the construction of a central chimney. Not that you can't have a chimney on a wattle and daub, thatch-roofed house - but they are very much more likely to go up in flames.
The Weald and Downland Museum is at Singleton, near Chichester, in the county of West Sussex (England).