Timber framed buildings

thumb|Windmill in Sønderho, Fanø, Denmark. Dutch type, built in 1895.

right|thumb|A -styled home in Shirakawa, Gifu (village)|Shirakawa village, [[Gifu Prefecture]] are vernacular houses constructed in any one of several traditional Japanese building styles. In the context of the four divisions of society, were the dwellings of farmers, artisans, and merchants (i.e., the three non-samurai castes). This connotation no longer exists in the modern Japanese language, and any traditional Japanese-style residence of appropriate age could be referred to as . thumb|Okugame minka farmhouse are characterized by their basic structure, their roof structure, and their roo

type of timber-framed farmhouse found in Northern Germany and the Netherlands, which combines living quarters, byre and barn under one roof

farm

decorative, open timber roof truss typical of English Gothic architecture