Please could someone tell me what is the correct description for a building that has a wooden boarded exterior.  I thought it was clap board, but I have also seen it described as weather boarded or siding or like this example - just boarded

Picture by Terry Pardy

hello to you it is called

 timber cladding 

see for more 

http://www.homebuilding.co.uk/feature/exterior-makeovers-part-one

It's very common in West Kent and jusr over to border into East Sussex and is known as weatherboarding.   Clapboard seems to be used more in the New England states.

Tenterden is typical of what you'll find in Kent.

Picture by John Ware

And the style crept over the border into East Sussex

Picture by M R McJannett

Thanks Paul.

Scores : 2 = weatherboard/ing;              1 = timber cladding