double pile: a house two rooms thick in plan.
dressings: blocks of stone that have been cut with true plane faces or shaped into quoins or keystones.
Double pile plan
- a plan which has two rooms throughout the depth of the building ie, a room at the front matched by a room at the rear.
Double pileA row of rooms two deep.Dragon beamIn a timber-framed building, a beam set diagonally at the corner to carry the joists where two jetties or projecting storeys meet.
The new Baroque fashion, and that of Palladianism which quickly followed it, swept away the "double pile" concept of one compact block with sets of rooms back to back as at Belton in favour of houses having at their centre a grand corps de logis ...
 See also: Brick, Gable, Member, Classical, House
  
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