Houses During The Time Of Shakespeare

The houses during the time of Shakespeare where called Elizabethan houses. These houses were made of timber which ran vertical and were also supported by diagonal timber. The walls of the house were made of mortar and then dabbed with white wash with an overhanging second floor to make more room in the houses. These houses had windows; thatched roofs, high thin chimneys, and pillared porches. But what kind of house you had depended on your rank in society. If you were upper class you enjoyed the luxury of having glass windows made of small pieces of glass and lead which held the glass together. Unlike the lower class who had the windows without glass and wooden shutters to let air in, like it had always been. One interesting fact about these houses is about the roof and how it was thatched, or made out of straw. Since it was made out of straw many animals would live in the straw of the house such as dogs or cats, and when it would rain the straw would get slippery and some times the animals would fall. This is where we got the saying its raining cats and dogs.

Site info: Alchin L.K. Elizabethan era.July 16, 2005.http://www.elizabethan-era.org.uk/