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A knee wall is a short wall, typically under three feet (one metre) in height, used to support the rafters in timber roof construction. In his book A Visual Dictionary of Architecture , Francis D. K. Ching defines a knee wall as "a short wall supporting rafters at some intermediate position along their length."
Knee timbers in boat building. In woodworking, a knee is a natural or cut curved piece of wood. [1] Knees, sometimes called ship's knees, are a common form of bracing in boat building and occasionally in timber framing. A knee rafter in carpentry is a bent rafter used to gain head room in an attic.
Knee (crook, kneeling, cranked) rafter: A rafter with a bend typically a few feet from the foot used to gain attic space like adding a kneewall. Rare in America. Rare in America. Barge rafter: The outermost rafter on a gable end, sometimes forming a roof overhang.
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Dutch gable, gablet: A hybrid of hipped and gable with the gable (wall) at the top and hipped lower down; i.e. the opposite arrangement to the half-hipped roof. Overhanging eaves forming shelter around the building are a consequence where the gable wall is in line with the other walls of the buildings; i.e., unless the upper gable is recessed.
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Raised cruck: The blades land on masonry wall and extend to ridge. [7] Middle cruck: The blades land on masonry wall and are truncated by collar beam. [7] Upper cruck: The blades land on tie beam, very similar to knee rafters. [7] Jointed cruck: The blades made from two pieces joined near eaves. They can be joined in at least five ways. [8]