Fachwerkhaus

Also in Gloucester we encountered this rosy-tinted half-timbered house in the cathedral close, and (out in town) this ornate clock advertising a watchmaker, with automata representing the four kingdoms of the British Isles plus Father Time.  (Is Ireland honored or merely stereotyped by being shown always to strike the first blow)  A very brief while after this photo was taken, we realized that the clock's visible splendors had left no room in the budget for tuning the chimes.

Fachwerkhaus

Jackie and Rachel Robinson would own their 'Mock-Tudor' half-timbered house, built at the close of the 1920's, for a decade.  How much it reminds me of the house I moved to on Packard Drive in Akron Ohio when I was 11.  The sub-division where we lived, with curving streets named after once popular automobiles:  Peerless, Packard, Winton, was wildly nostalgic, in part because each of the car models designating roadways, was defunct, apart from Cadillac.  Its picturesque houses, neo-Colonial, Tudor, and Mediterranean, with deep eaves, bay windows, tapestry brick, roughly textured stucco and irregular shingle siding, also contributed to the neighborhood's appeal, just as at Addisleigh Park.

Fachwerkhaus

Two of the most imposing buildings in town are the Alte Universitt and the Baumann'sches Haus. The former is the biggest and tallest half-timbered house in Eppingen. Built in 1494, it got its name when members of the Heidelberg University stayed there when the plague broke out in Heidelberg in the 16th century. Today it houses the city museum. The latter is a Renaissance house from the 16th century, considered one of the most beautiful in the area. Across from it is the Bckerhaus, which dates to 1412, and is the oldest half-timbered house in the region.

Fachwerkhaus

Fachwerkhaus

Fachwerkhaus