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The black weatherboarding was designed to give a distinct local identity, echoing the barns that adorn the Essex countryside.

It had once been painted white as to the weatherboarding and green as to the shutters, but time and rain had reduced the walls to gray and the shutters to a dark, nondescript color.

The weatherboarding and the roof should be tight to prevent too free escape of the smoke.

Weather boards.—For outdoor buildings, such as garages, garden sheds, toolhouses, etc., "weatherboarding" is often preferred to ordinary matchboarding, chiefly because of the facility with which it throws off the rain.

Through its rough weatherboarding the winds and snows of winter would howl.