Select Designs for Public Buildings; Consisting of Plans, Elevations, Perspective Views, Sections, and Details, of Churches, Chapels, Schools, Alms-Houses, Gas-Works, Markets, and Other Buildings Erected for Public Purposes (Paperback)

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. 1842 Excerpt: ...apartments for warming apparatus, cellars, water closets, and all other conveniences required for the domestic arrangements of a large establishment. The height of this floor should be nine feet six inches. In the arrangement of the first floor it will be desirable to appropriate that part over the hall, commercial room, and coffee room, and also that part over the card and dining rooms at the back of the house, if the situation of the building will admit, into suites of apartments for the use of families. The sides may be appropriated for bed rooms. The height of this floor should be ten feet. The upper or attic story can be divided into eight or ten good bed rooms, the number being regulated by the size that shall be considered most desirable, a passage being formed in the centre, and the rooms arranged on each side. This story is intended to be eight feet six inches high, which will be sufficient for such rooms. The roofs of these buildings may be constructed of either wrought or cast metal, and covered with slate. All the sky-lights, and particularly that round the passage, should be constructed of zinc or light wrought metal. Plate XLV. Fig. 1 is the elevation of half the principal entrance, showing the balcony and a part of the first floor windows. Fig. 2 is a portion of the section of the same, showing the construction and the method of finishing the inner and outer doors. A is a stone cornice and architrave. B, timber lintel. F, framing and panelling of soffit. C, flooring boards of first or principal story. a, the floor joists. D, the Bhutters. E, the balustrade over the cornice. Gr, the external door, folded back on the side jamb, prepared to receive it. This door should be framed from two-inch oak, with double or single panels. H H, one and a hal...