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Thus, in a context of environmental awareness and climate change, it is relevant to understand their features\/strategies and how they perform. This work analyses the energy performance and thermal condition evaluation of a vernacular timber building\u2013palheiro\u2013from Praia de Mira, through in situ measurements, subjective analysis and energy simulation provided by DesignBuilder\/EnergyPlus. The results show a good or satisfactory thermal performance during most of the seasons by passive means only. Despite, it was not possible to guarantee thermal comfort conditions for the occupants during winter. In the energy performance analysis, five scenarios, with different external walls, were compared. In the two scenarios that satisfy the maximum U-value for the climate zone, the current conventional building had a slightly better performance on heating and cooling (less 1.1 and 1.4 kWh\/m2, respectively) than the timber building. 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