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The stone remains widely used in the United Kingdom and Ireland for human body weight: in those countries people may commonly be said to weigh, e.g., "11 stone 4" (11 stones and 4 pounds), rather than "72 kilograms" as in most of the other countries, or "158 pounds", the conventional way of expressing the same weight in the US and in Canada. [38]
Gothic Revival in style, it is built in limestone from the Faxe south of Copenhagen, knapped flint from Stevns, Åland stone for the spire, and roof tiles from Broseley in Shropshire. The conspicuous use of flint as a building material, unusual in Denmark, is another typical trait from England where it is commonly seen in church buildings in ...
The long or imperial hundredweight of 8 stone or 112 pounds (50.80 kg) is defined in the British imperial system. [ 2 ] Under both conventions, there are 20 hundredweight in a ton , producing a " short ton " of 2,000 pounds (907.2 kg) and a " long ton " of 2,240 pounds (1,016 kg).
Pages in category "Stone houses in the United States" The following 18 pages are in this category, out of 18 total. This list may not reflect recent changes. A.
Stone houses in the United States (8 C, 18 P) Pages in category "Stone houses" The following 16 pages are in this category, out of 16 total.
1653 Roger Mowry House (Providence) diagram from Norman Isham's 1895 book Eleazer Arnold House, 1691, Lincoln, Rhode Island. The stone-ender is a unique style of Rhode Island architecture that developed in the 17th century where one wall in a house is made up of a large stone chimney.
Flint House is a domestic dwelling on the Waddesdon Estate, Buckinghamshire, England. It was commissioned by Jacob Rothschild, 4th Baron Rothschild, and completed in 2015, winning that year's RIBA House of the Year Award. [1] The architect was Charlotte Skene Catling, a partner of Skene Catling de la Peña.
Commons has photos of numerous stone houses in Kentucky; see Media related to Stone houses in Kentucky at Wikimedia Commons. Pages in category "Stone houses in Kentucky" The following 19 pages are in this category, out of 19 total.