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PANELLING
Wooden lining to interior walls, made up of vertical members and horizontals framing panels: also called wainscot. Raised and fielded: with the central area of the panel (field) raised up.

 


Of panelling, with the central area of the panel (field) raised up. Also used for stonework treated with sunk or raised panels.RakedSloped or pitched.RampartDefensive outer wall of stone or earth.

wood panelling. Oak imported for this purpose from the Baltic was also so called.
Wall-plate
a timber laid lengthwise at the wall top to receive the ends of the roof rafters and other joists. In timber-framing, the studs are also tenoned into it.

linen-fold panelling: a form of decoration, commonly found on Tudor woodwork, that resembles folded linen.
lintel: a horizontal member supported at each end by a wall or columns.

Linenfold - Panelling ornamented with a conventional representation of a piece of linen laid in vertical folds. One such piece fills one panel.
Lintel - A horizontal beam or stone bridging an opening.
Listel - See Fillet.

Wainscot: Wood panelling or boarding on the lower part of an internal wall.
Wall Plate: Timber placed at the eaves of a roof, to take the weight of the roof timbers.
Wastepipe: Drainage pipe for baths, basins, wc's ...

Dado Rail - a moulding fixed to the wall or capping panelling and forming the top most part of a dado. Originally designed to avoid damage to the wall where people or furniture brushed against it.

In the château of Meillant (1503) the chimney shafts are decorated with angle buttresses, niches and canopies, in the late Flamboyant style; and at Chambord and Blois they are carved with pilasters and niches with panelling above, ...

pickets Panelling The covering of an interior surface with timber, usually as a series of sheets fixed between framing members, ...

When removing dado panelling for safe storage, a hollow was revealed. This turned out to be a buffet which had been concealed behind later plasterwork (Before & After Illustrations).

Cantilevered structures, acute angles, illuminated plastic panelling, freeform boomerang and artist's palette shapes and cutouts, and tailfins on buildings marked Googie architecture, which was beneath contempt to the architects of Modernism, ...

12. (Fine Arts & Visual Arts / Architecture) Architect a strip of flat panelling, such as a fascia or plinth, usually attached to a wall
13. (Clothing & Fashion) a large white collar, sometimes edged with lace, worn in the 17th century ...

A convex moulding covering the joint between two different planes, especially on panelling and fireplace surrounds of the late 17th and early 18th centuries.Bond
West Walton, Norfolk.

The Early English gablets are generally plain, and very sharp in pitch. In the Decorated period they are often enriched with panelling and crockets. They are sometimes finished with small crosses, but more often with finials.

"Many of the residents grew up in mountain villages around the area. They have always lived in the country and feel at home with the traditional building materials used here - tuff, larch, pine, maple, solid wood flooring and wooden panelling.

It was protected front and back by panelling and the great rood or crucifix would have been fixed to the front.
Many rood lofts and crucifixes were destroyed at the Reformation. All that remains in St Lawrence are the stairways to access the loft ...

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