Storey
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STOREY (equivalents are Fr. etage, Ital. piano, Ger. Stock), the term in architecture given to the floor of a building, and employed generally when referring to a number of floors one above the other; ...
STOREY
A set of rooms on the same floor or level; a floor, or the space between two floors. Also, a horizontal division of a building's exterior considered architecturally, which need not correspond exactly with the stories within.
CLERESTOREY The upper part of the church's nave above the aisle roofs, with windows.
clerestorey: the upper part of the side walls of a building, especially a church, rising above the aisle roofs and pierced by windows.
cloisonné facing: wall ornamentation in patterns of stone and brick.
Storey posts
- the posts used to carry floors in warehouses and mills. The term seems to be more commonly applied to cast iron columns than timber posts.
storey, floor, story, level - a structure consisting of a room or set of rooms at a single position along a vertical scale; "what level is the office on?"
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basement - the ground floor facade or interior in Renaissance architecture ...
two-storeys high
blocky and square in appearance
often includes square tower or projecting central section [frontispiece] ...
a low storey beween two higher ones (entresol)
Mine gallery
siegwork to call wall collapse ...
The clerestorey windows at Saint-Omer Cathedral.
The internal columns of the arcade with their attached shafts, the ribs of the vault and the flying buttresses, with their associated vertical buttresses jutting at right-angles to the building, ...
Small top storey within a roof. The storey above the main entablature of a classical facade....
Bahut
Dwarf-wall of plain masonry, carrying the roof of a cathedral or church and masked or hidden behind the balustrade....
Uppermost storey standing above the aisle roof, pierced by windows, sometimes with a triforium beneath.
Consecration Cross ...
The upper storey walls of the nave of a church, pierced by high windows.
CORBEL
A block of stone projecting out to carry the weight of an arch, beam or other feature.
Uppermost storey of the nave walls of a church pierced by windows.
Coade Stone
A ceramic artificial stone made in Lambeth from 1769 to about 1840 by Eleanor Coade and her associates.
The three storey building set the precedent for downtown commercial buildings as can be seen in Eaton's College Street in Toronto, the Right House in Hamilton, and many more.
Multi-storeyOf five or more storeys.MultifoilWith multiple lobes (foils) formed by the cusping of a circular or other shape in tracery.MultivallateOf a hillfort: defended by three or more concentric banks and ditches.Muntin ...
In post-and-lintel construction, lintels, or beams, are laid horizontally across the tops of posts, or columns; additional horizontal elements span from beam to beam, forming decks that can support a roof or function as the floor of an upper storey.
The typical house in the city consists of a tall stone block structure up to five storeys high with external and internal staircases, a design thought to originate from fortified country houses in southern Albania.
Bagging The process of applying thin mortar to a masonry wall with a coarse material such as hessian Balcony A cantilevered or bracketed platform projecting from a wall with access from an upper storey Bargeboard A sloping board fixed to ...
Entresol - a low storey within two high ones (mezzanine).
Fascine - huge bundle of brushwood for revetting ramparts or filling in ditches.
Fausse Braye - low rampart in the ditch, in front of the main fortification.
Plinth - The built up covered area measured at the floor level of the basement or of any storey.
Podium - Platform supporting more than one column.
Traditionally, the Cape Cod design is one and a half storeys high and just above is a livable attic area. In order to do this a high pitched roof was used to allow space for the dormers and double hung windows.
It consisted of two storeys: the windowless ground floor was used to house the livestock, its entrance was secured from within by a heavily barred door and a trap door to the upper story; ...
the projection of an upper storey of a building beyond the plane of a lower storey.
Jowled
an enlargement at the head of a post to facilitate jointing with two horizontal members at right angles to each other.
Sometimes rises above the roof line to create an extra storey
Sometimes contains a staircase
Turrets arose in the medieval period in castles and churches, usually for stairs or as watch towers, in which case they could also be called "échaugettes" ...
(Plural: atria): inner court of a Roman or C20 house; in a multi-storey building, a toplit covered court rising through all storeys....
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Overhang - Projection of the upper storey of a house.
Oversailing courses - A series of a stone or brick courses, each one projecting beyond the one below it.
Oriel windows generally project from an upper storey, supported by brackets. Bay windows are angled/square projections that rise up from the ground. Bow windows are rounded projections often formed of the glass itself.
Triforium
A galleried arcade at the second floor level, even with the aisle roof. Also called a "blind-storey" - the triforium looks like a row of window frames without window openings.
Gallery
A balcony or mezzanine overlooking the main interior space of a building. In a church the gallery is an upper storey directly above the aisle, with arches looking down into the nave.
A wall painting was found lying on the floor of the larger building. Restored and returned to its original position, it gives an impression of the probable height of the single-storey houses.
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Gallery. A long room or corridor, usually on the upper floor and extending the full length of a building. In church architecture, an open upper storey over an aisle.
Designed to bring light into the church, and to relieve the weight on the walls and arches.
Many of the old churches in Ashfield have clerestories.
Also, an upper storey of windows to bring light into a factory workshop (e.g.
piano nobile the main floor of a building where the most important rooms would be located: literally "noble storey" in Italian.
Roof Void - unused space between the roof and the ceiling of the highest storey (often called the loft or attic).
RSJ - frequently used abbreviation for a Rolled Steel Joist.
 See also: Architecture, House, Floor, Brick, Ground
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