The word 'weatherboard' is correct and commonly used in written English.
It refers to a type of wooden board used in building houses or other structures, typically with overlapping edges to provide protection against the weather. Example: The old house was made of weatherboard, giving it a charming rustic look.
A walk round Allira's township, where 16% of people are unemployed, shows run down weatherboard houses, battered and rusted cars and piles of rubbish in gardens.
Clapboard, also called weatherboard, bevel siding, or lap siding, type of board bevelled toward one edge, used to clad the exterior of a frame building.
Areas with more precipitation that have been settled since 1850, chiefly the northwest, the northeast, and the Huon River valley region, generally had small farms, buildings mostly of weatherboard, and houses and villages mainly aligned narrowly along roads.
So I settled on a simple weatherboard house in the country I knew, no job, and no idea how to sustain a life – just a knowingness that said if I had stayed where I was I would fade like a cushion in the sun.
A pilgrimage south along the strand, for example, is rewarded by a broad grin at the far end in Pablo Bronstein's Beach Hut in the Style of Nicholas Hawksmoor, a piece of funereal English baroque dropped in among the cheerful pastel weatherboard.
With its cute weatherboard cottages, ramshackle houseboats marooned on mudflats, fine seafood and jaunty nautical air, Mersea is a beguiling place for a day trip, but it's when the crowds have left and the only sound is the seagulls and the clanking of the bells on the sailing boats that it really comes into its own.
Most are single family homes with two to four bedrooms; the most common styles are the weatherboard-clad bungalows built in the first half of the 20th century and the brick or stucco townhouses with tiled roofs.
As the bus rattled along the hilly, narrow roads one recent Saturday, past properties ranging from simple, weatherboard-clad beach houses to large, modern homes, the driver was joking.
To find some of the old weatherboard-on-stilts Queenslanders, head to the posh suburb of Ascot or see the smaller worker cottage versions in Paddington (though just because they're smaller doesn't make them cheap).
Bargain of the week Two-bed, weatherboarded cottage close to the station in Charing, £175,000, with stevenjmooreestateagents.co.uk.co.uk
Pull back the curtains of this one-bedroom, weatherboarded cottage and you have endless views of open fields and the orchard from which the property takes its name.
