Sole Plates - A shoe or base member, as of a partition or other frame.
Span - The distance between structural supports such as walls, columns, piers, beams, girders, and trusses.
Sole Plate The bottom horizontal member in a frame wall. Usually either single or double 2' x 4's. It is nailed to the deck or rough floor and the studs are nailed into it.
Sole - The horizontal wooden member supporting wall studs.
Spandrel - The part of a porch facade that reflects the balustrade.
Spanish Clay Tile - A roofing material made from clay soil into red brick; common to Mediterranean Revival houses.
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The spell of the fair wind has a subtle power to scatter a white-winged company of ships looking all the same way, each with its white fillet of tumbling foam under the bow.
ASHLAR PIECES: short vertical timbers which continue the plane of the internal wall until it meets the underside of the rafters and which generally join the rafters to the wall plate or sole pieces.
history when paganism had been extinguished, the traditions of classical civilization destroyed, the hordes of barbarian invaders beaten back, or Christianized and assimilated; and when the Catholic Church had established itself not only as the sole ...
Abutment Piece - A sill or sole plate.
Accelerated Weathering/ Artificial Ageing - The testing of materials by exposure to cycles of sunlight, heat, frost and wetness or dryness that are more severe than in nature.
Until the 18th century, open fire was the sole means of heating food, and the architecture of the kitchen reflected this.
As the sole reason for the city's existence seems to have been a whim of the emperor, the fact that he was no longer in residence meant that there was no longer any incentive for anybody else to stay.
The sole Eucharist you should consider valid is one that is celebrated by the bishop himself, or by some person authorized by him.
- a general term for any horizontal timber supporting the ends of joist, rafters etc. More specifically, the term is usually taken to refer to a horizontal timber at the bottom of a timber framed wall (the sole or sill plate) or at the top (the wall ...
Daily living had evolved to a routine where men left the home to work each day, and women stayed home to care for the children. Servants, once plentiful and cheap, became too expensive for the middle class and women assumed the role of sole ...
privy gardenPrivy means 'private' and thus a private garden, usually made for the sole use of a king or queen.Example 1: Henry VIII and English Gardens: Hampton Court and Nonsuch promenadeA Promenade is a public walk.
 See also: House, Ground, Architecture, Floor, Member
  
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