Hearth - floor of the fireplace, usually extending into a room and paved with brick, flagstone or cement
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Hearth
The floor of a fireplace, usually extending out into the room.
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Hearth - The bottom of a fireplace.
Hopper Window - A bottom hinged typically seen in basements ...
Hearth - The fireplace floor.
Heat Loss - The heat that is lost (in BTU's) through ceilings, roof, floors and exterior walls of a house.
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Breast - A projection of a wall into a room, containing the flue and hearth of a fireplace and/or;
The wall under a window sill, down to the floor ...
ATRIUM (either from ater, black, referring to the blackening of the walls from the smoke of the hearth, or from the Greek aZBpcov, open to the sky, or from an Etruscan town, Atria, where the style of building is supposed to have originated), ...
With the advent of the chimney, the hearth moved from the center of the room to one wall, and the first brick-and-mortar hearths were built. The fire was lit on top of the construction; a vault underneath served to store wood.
Megaron - A square or oblong room with a central hearth and usually four columns to support the roof, the lateral walls projecting forwards beyond the entrance wall to form the sides of a porch which is usually columned.
Interior view of hearth and dining area
Interior view of living room and south alcove
Interior view of living room
Interior view of master bedroom dressing area
Interior view of master bedroom
Interior view of passage to guest room ...
Abraham made haste into the tent to Sara, and said to her: Make haste, temper together three measures of flour, and make cakes upon the hearth.
They are commonly found in vernacular buildings where the central hearth moves to the gable, which might be thin or poorly mortared, and unable to accommodate a flue.
A small opening located in the hearth of a fireplace having a cast iron cover, used to dump the ashes down into a cavity below the fire box.
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LouvreRoof opening, often protected by a raised timber structure, to allow the smoke from a central hearth to escape; also one of a series of horizontal boards or slats set at angle to prevent rain entering an opening.
megaron: rectangular room of Mycenean origin preceded by a porch and containing a central hearth and four roof columns.
metope: the square panel between two triglyphs in a Doric frieze.
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An opening in roof (often with lantern over) to allow smoke to escape from central hearth.
Louvre - Opening in roof (sometimes topped with lantern) to allow smoke to escape from central hearth.
Lozenge - Diamond shape.
This material is used to decorate walls and is also used for the construction of storage bins and hearths. [hide description]
See also
Anjar; Syria; Tripoli
Further Reading
F. Ragette, Architecture in Lebanon.
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