The fashion for black and white houses where the timbers were painted with tar or a thick black gloss paint, for example, was generally a nineteenth-century conceit.
Yn gyffredinol, enghraifft o ymdeimlad y bedwaredd ganrif ar bymtheg o falchder oedd y ffasiwn am dai du a gwyn lle paentiwyd y pren gyda thar neu baent sglein du trwchus, er enghraifft.