3 to 5 Butter Street comprises of three main bays and an additional spere truss. The main trusses have mid-rails, cambered tiebeams, collars and queen struts between the tiebeams and the collars. The roof includes a single set of butt purlins, with windbraces. Truss B has been interpreted to have carried a unique shelf, presumed for storage, in the part of the hall used as a parlour. Sampling was limited to 3 Butter Street which comprises of the first bay of this building. Five oak timbers were dated dendrochronologically to form a long 126-year site mean chronology (ALCES-BH) spanning AD1319 - AD1444. Five samples all from truss B dated, with full sapwood recovery providing a felling date in the Winter AD1444/5. This suggests the primary phase of construction commenced in the winter of that year or shortly after. A felling date of winter 1713/14 produced from a rail, provides a tentative date for the extension of 3 Butter Street to the west.

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Moir, A. K. 2003. Dendrochronological analysis of oak timbers from 3 Butter Street, Alcester, Warwickshire, England. Tree-Ring Services, Dendro Rep, ALBH/22/03: 1-28.

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