The most typical and oldest Norman house in Pont-Audemer is the half-timbered house, recognizable at first glance by its wooden frame visible from the outside. These half-timbered houses are built around thick beams that form tiles, an architectural technique inherited from the Middle Ages. The real Norman house is a mud house, from the land of its country. The tiles are filled with a cob made of clay and fibers then the formed walls are passed with limestone from the region's marnières for the lime wash and the finishing plasters. The first roofs were thatched before becoming slate.