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BUILDERS calamity of Fire
Design
References to be made to the Sections, & to the Line in the Authentic Edition The design of these regulations is to prevent the spreading of Fires.
This Law extends over the They have force within the Bills of Mortality, and the 4 Parishes besides all in the County of Middx viz:
.1 Where in force 1. St Mary-le-Bone. 2d Paddington. + + Qu: whether the 2 first are not united: being connected in the by the Conjunction Copulation. 3. St Pancras. 4. St Luke at Chelsea all in
the County of Middex
1. 2 Commencement It They commences from the 24th of June 1772.
The Buildings it concerns are "Houses or Tenements" built "for Habitation".
Walls Species of Materials Dimensions The Materials of all every Walls of such Buildings must be either 1st Stone or 2d Brick or
Quality of Materials 3. Brick & Stone together Nothing said of Mortar. & Plaister is excluded such as is used for some of the Adelphi Buildings: unless it comes under the denomination of Stone It is to be presumed if we designed that the parts mentioned before Breast-Summer Fronts might be made of any material all the way up: but as the passage will admitt of another , viz. the applying the limitation "to the ground floor" to each of them, it might have been better if it had stood thus: .... "Story Parts, & to the Ground Floor Breast Summer Fronts and the Cornishes to them
5 And In Party Walls every one of the Bricks they must be good, sound, hard & well-burnt.
Dimensions Exception species of as to Materials 4 Except that in Front or Rear Walls All Walls sound square Bond Timbers, may be used; & any materials for Door cases, Window
Frames, Shutters Story Posts, and Breast-Summer Fronts to the Ground Floor
Story, & Cornices to the Breast Summer Fronts In the Act "Between House & House other Buildings. may be made of any materials In Party Walls, and in Flank [called ] tide
Identifier: | JB/096/225/001"JB/" can not be assigned to a declared number type with value 96. |
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jeremy bentham |
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caroline vernon |
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