Building Techniques

The main cover structure of the West range comprises a stone tiled roof on Oak timbers secured onto a steel frame mounted on pad-stones on the original building foundations. Where the foundations were not strong enough to carry the load this was spread by concrete ring beams covered by new flint-work similar to the original walls but pointed in pink mortar rather than grey to distinguish clearly what is old and what is new.

Where protection needed to be given to the interior around the reconstructed Roman window the walls were built up with new flint-work, again pointed with pink mortar to make the new work clear.

All pointing is carried out in lime mortar. Further information is contained in the Conservation Plan