Old cottages, farm houses, and other half-timber buildings in Shropshire, Herefordshire, and Cheshire (1904)
Ould, Edward Augustus, Parkinson, James · London, B. T. Batsford · leaf 23
erent counties. Stout oak sills arelaid horizontally upon a low wall ofstone or brick and into these are tenonedi: upright posts, the larger ones beingplaced at the external an-gles. Upon these uprightposts, horizontal heads areplaced just below the levelof the chamber floor, andthe intervening… … Fig. I. HOUSES IN BUTCHER S ROW,SHREWSBURY. IN SHROPSHIRE, HEREFORDSHIRE & CHESHIRE. 5 partly supported by internal beams which appear in the ceilings ofthe house. Upon the ends of the joists, the sill of the upper storeyis laid and the framing is more or less a repetition of that below,…
