At the beginning of the 18th century, Manchester was a small rural town little more than a village, with many fields and timber framed houses.

It has a high concentration of older protected timber houses and farmsteads.

There are a lot of timber framed houses, built up in that era.

It is a colonial timber house which still stands proudly preserved today.

One of the oldest ways to make a timber house is to cut tree-trunks into logs.

The timber house, gardens and an interactive archaeology exhibit are open to visitors.

Slade Hall is a timber house on a low stone base built at the end of the 16th century, and still preserving its ancient front.

This building is a possible reconstruction of a timber house, based on the results from excavation.

There were strangers in the little cleared space before the lord's timber house.

It was largely rebuilt in the 19th century on the site of a medieval timber house.