Building material

Oak beam

Oak timber → Oak beam

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A squared beam hewn from oak, the favoured structural timber of medieval England for its strength and durability. Trunks were felled and hewn to shape with axe and adze, usually while the wood was green. Oak beams framed halls, churches, barns and bridges, and the 12th and 13th centuries saw carpenters develop mortice-and-tenon jointing and bay framing.

Caveats (confidence: medium)

Oak's pre-eminence is well established; specific 12th-century hewing practice is inferred from general medieval evidence.

Sources: medievalists.net

Made by

Hew an oak beamfrom Oak timber; with any axe (axe, billhook), Adze; at hewing floor; by carpenter

Used to build

Watermillgives Watermill; from any beam (oak beam, common beam, great oak beam), any planks (oak planks, ash planks, elm planks and 2 more), Millstone, Iron fittings; by millwright
Inngives Inn; from any beam (oak beam, common beam, great oak beam), any planks (oak planks, ash planks, elm planks and 2 more), Tiles, any walling (rough stone, bricks), Barrel; by carpenter
Alehousegives Alehouse; from any planks (oak planks, ash planks, elm planks and 2 more), any beam (oak beam, common beam, great oak beam), Barrel, any vessel (iron cauldron, copper)
Wheelwright and wainwright shopgives Wheelwright and wainwright shop; from any planks (oak planks, ash planks, elm planks and 2 more), any beam (oak beam, common beam, great oak beam), Drawknife, Adze, Chisel; by carpenter
Storehousegives Storehouse; from any beam (oak beam, common beam, great oak beam), any planks (oak planks, ash planks, elm planks and 2 more), any roofing (tiles, thatch), Nails; by carpenter
Timber bridgegives Timber bridge; from any beam (oak beam, common beam, great oak beam), any planks (oak planks, ash planks, elm planks and 2 more), Nails, any stone (rough stone, limestone); by carpenter
Craft workshopgives Craft workshop; from any planks (oak planks, ash planks, elm planks and 2 more), any beam (oak beam, common beam, great oak beam), Nails; by carpenter
Cottagegives Cottage; from any beam (oak beam, common beam, great oak beam), any planks (oak planks, ash planks, elm planks and 2 more), Clay, any roofing (tiles, thatch); by carpenter
Spinner's cottagegives Spinner's cottage; from any beam (oak beam, common beam, great oak beam), any planks (oak planks, ash planks, elm planks and 2 more), Clay, any roofing (tiles, thatch); by carpenter
Infirmarygives Infirmary; from any beam (oak beam, common beam, great oak beam), any planks (oak planks, ash planks, elm planks and 2 more), any roofing (tiles, thatch), Linen cloth
Oil pressgives Oil press; from any beam (oak beam, common beam, great oak beam), any planks (oak planks, ash planks, elm planks and 2 more), any stone (rough stone, limestone)
Powder millgives Powder mill; from any beam (oak beam, common beam, great oak beam), any planks (oak planks, ash planks, elm planks and 2 more), Millstone, Iron fittings
Blowing housegives Blowing house; from any stone (rough stone, limestone), any beam (oak beam, common beam, great oak beam), any planks (oak planks, ash planks, elm planks and 2 more), Clay, Bellows, Iron fittings; by smelter

Caveats (confidence: medium)

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