This part of rural Essex has one of the highest concentrations of surviving timber framed buildings - including my listed cottage.
Hampshire Fire and Rescue Service chief officer John Bonney, current President of the Chief Fire Officers Association, attended the scene and issued a warning about the danger of timber framed buildings.
He added that fire spread was a major concern at the incident, and that the Chief Fire Officers Association "was right to be increasingly concerned about the number and severity of fires in timber framed buildings under construction".
But the 1930s timber-framed bungalow has become more than just a home for Ms Nierop-Reading.
While the foundations were being dug, a steel-and-timber-framed shell of the house was built off-site.
Pottery dating back to the 13th century and footings of timber-framed houses have also been discovered at a site near Lodge Farm.
The Lord's Garden is now part of Nantclwyd y Dre in Ruthin, which is thought may be Wales' oldest timber-framed town house.
At its height the timber-framed block of flats on Gershwin Road, Basingstoke, was "in danger of total collapse", a fire service spokesman said.
Narrow streets wind their way through the historic town centre, decorated with lights, bows and wooden ornaments, while the timber-framed houses, each in a different colour, add to the picturesque scene.
It is expected to reveal the less salubrious parts of Roman London outside of the City walls with archaeologists anticipating to encounter Roman timber-framed buildings and a street surface 6m below ground level.
The 16th-century timber-framed thatched cottage that was his country home for his last three decades stands in excellent repair in Shallowford, a deeply rural, tiny hamlet aptly named for the fishing stream that runs through the property.
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