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2. List of octagonal buildings and structures - Wikipedia

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   The Butter Market, Barnard Castle, County Durham. Hertford College 's Middle Common Room, Oxford. Octagonal Tower, Cardiff Castle, Cardiff, built by Robert Beauchamp 1425. Octagonal drawing room, Castell Coch, Tongwynlais, Cardiff, built by William Burges for John Crichton-Stuart, 3rd Marquess of Bute, 1870s.

3. York engine sheds and locomotive works - Wikipedia

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   Dimensions 153 feet x 54 feet. The York and North Midland Railway built a shed in this area, but this was demolished when the new station was built in 1877. Another four engine sheds were built in this area. The first two were roundhouses completed in 1849/50 and 1851/2 each with 16 stalls and 42-foot turntables.

4. Round barn - Wikipedia

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   A round barn is a historic barn design that could be octagonal, polygonal, or circular in plan. Though round barns were not as popular as some other barn designs, their unique shape makes them noticeable. The years from 1880 to 1920 represent the height of round barn construction. [ 1] Round barn construction in the United States can be divided ...

5. Plodder Lane engine shed - Wikipedia

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   The shed was built on a 5.85 acres (2.37 hectares) plot north of Plodder Lane (now the B6199) and Plodder Lane station. The engine shed, 42 feet (13 m) turntable, coaling and watering facilities were on the western side of the line, with a goods shed and yard on the eastern side. The shed was built in Ramsbottom's hipped-roof style and could ...

6. Dutch barn - Wikipedia

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   Dutch barn is the name given to markedly different types of barns in the United States and Canada, and in the United Kingdom. In the United States, Dutch barns (a. k. a. New World Dutch barns) represent the oldest and rarest types of barns. [citation needed] There are relatively few—probably fewer than 600—of these barns still intact.

7. Second Empire architecture in the United States and Canada

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   Renwick's gallery was one of the first major public buildings in the style, and its favorable reception furthered interest in Second Empire design. [13] These early buildings display a close affinity to the high-style designs found in the new Louvre construction, with quoins, stone detailing, carved elements and sculpture, a strong division ...

8. Tudor architecture - Wikipedia

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   Tudor architecture

9. Nissen hut - Wikipedia

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   Nissen huts, Cultybraggan Camp, close to Comrie, in west Perthshire. A Nissen hut is a prefabricated steel structure originally for military use, especially as barracks, made from a 210° portion of a cylindrical skin of corrugated iron. It was designed during the First World War by the Canadian-American-British engineer and inventor Major ...