Reconstructing the Peyton Randolph Smokehouse, page 6

Smokehouse


By spring of 1998 the smokehouse is almost finished. On the sides facing away from the house and toward the street, clapboards are used to enclose the structure.	The sides facing into the courtyard and toward the house are covered with weatherboard, giving the family a finer view.

Clapboards are riven or plit into lenghts of four to six feet and their quality is determined by the grain of the wood.	A weatherboard is not split, but sawn into regularly dimensioned pieces. Its lenght is determined only by the length of the timber being sawn.
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