This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1880 Excerpt: ... building Acts at present in force in most towns compel a solid wall of stone or brick between each house rising eighteen inches above the roof. To this regulation we are indebted to our immunity from great fires in our modern rows of houses. This mode of constructing the walls of houses was stopped at last only by ...
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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1880 Excerpt: ... building Acts at present in force in most towns compel a solid wall of stone or brick between each house rising eighteen inches above the roof. To this regulation we are indebted to our immunity from great fires in our modern rows of houses. This mode of constructing the walls of houses was stopped at last only by stringent laws, which compelled the party-walls between the houses to be of stone. Afterwards the use of wood as a building material for walls was altogether forbidden in our towns. It is still a cheap and comfortable mode of construction, which may be used with advantage in country districts for cottages, and for filling in the triangular space of the gables of houses, when, the walls being built to one level height all round, it forms as if a perpendicular piece of roof, with which its construction is more consistent than stone walling. With the progress of nations in the art of building, stone has generally been substituted for wood--but the details of the wood construction were copied by carving in tbe stone. Among the most curious instances of this, are those Hindoo "Topes," of part of one of which, that at.Amrivati, there is now a reproduction in plaster in the South Kensington Museum. It consists of a railing with gates, round a sacred mound, in which, at enormous cost, long stones represent beams, the nail heads fastening them and the notchings of the carpentry being accurately carved. Even Greek architecture, which is certainly the most refined and finished style the world has seen, bears traces of wooden constructions in its forms, which are perpetuated in a degenerated form after their functions have ceased, like "rudimentary organs" in animals. Stone Walls.--Building stones may be roughly divided into three kinds--...
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