Sleepers - Any of the pieces of timber. Stone, iron or steel, on or near the ground level, to support some superstructure, to steady framework, to receive floor joists.
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Joist set in concrete to provide nailing strips for flooring.
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Sleeper - Lowest horizontal timber (or low wall).
Soffit - Underside of arch, hung parapet, or opening.
Solar - Upper living room , often over the great hall; the lord's private living room.
Sleeper wall - A wall to support the ground floor, usually honeycombed in construction to provide ventilation.
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SLEEPER WALLS - See honeycomb walls.
SNAGGING - Minor building works to be finished off after practical completion.
SNAP HEADERS - Cut bricks to outer skin of cavity wall or rounded bays.
Basement Wall - Either the wall round a basement or a sleeper wall supporting the floor
Baseplate, Stanchion base - A thick steel plate on the bottom of a steel column, with holes for holding down bolts. It may have base gussets and/or ...
Sometimes, they shared apartments with "night sleepers", unmarried men that paid for a bed at night. The kitchen in such an apartment was often used as a living and sleeping room, and even as a bathroom.
MANSARD ROOF A roof with a double slope " the lower is longer and sleeper.
(illustration from Hussey's National Cottage Architecture 1874)
MERLON The raised part of an indented parapet or battlement.
Ranch House Style. 1 st ed. New York: Clarkson Potter/Publishers, 2003.
" Split Decision: The Split-Level House Was the Sleeper Hit of Postwar Bedroom Communities." Old House Journal April 2002: 78-83.
Sleeper - lowest horizontal timber (or low wall).
Slight - to damage or destroy a castle to render it unfit for use or occupation as a fortress.
Slit - a narrow opening in a wall for admitting light and for firing arrows.
constitute small gables with two or three storeys of windows. The term "dormer" arose from the windows being those of sleeping-rooms. In the phrase "dormer beam" or "dormant beam," meaning a tie-beam, we have the same sense as in the modern "sleeper.
Sleeper: Lowest horizontal timber (or low wall). Socle: A low projecting base for a wall or statue. Soffit: The underside of an arch, opening, or projecting architectural element.
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