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2. Listed buildings in Dewsbury - Wikipedia

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   The buildings are in stone and some later brickwork, with quoins, and a stone slate roof with chamfered gable copings, cut kneelers and a finial. The openings include segmental-headed cart entries, arched entrances, and a window, now blocked, with a triangular lintel , and there are two re-used datestones.

3. Gable - Wikipedia

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   This arrangement is a crossed gable roof Gable in Finland Decorative gable roof at 176–178 St. John's Place between Sixth and Seventh Avenue in the Park Slope neighborhood of Brooklyn, New York City. A gable is the generally triangular portion of a wall between the edges of intersecting roof pitches. The shape of the gable and how it is ...

4. Attic fan - Wikipedia

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   A powered attic ventilator, or attic fan, is a ventilation fan that regulates the heat level of a building's attic by exhausting hot air. A thermostat is used to automatically turn the fan off and on, while sometimes a manual switch is used. An attic fan can be gable mounted or roof mounted. Additional vents are required to draw in the fresh ...

5. Stepped gable - Wikipedia

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   A stepped gable, crow-stepped gable, or corbie step [1] is a stairstep type of design at the top of the triangular gable-end of a building. [ 1 ] [ 2 ] The top of the parapet wall projects above the roofline and the top of the brick or stone wall is stacked in a step pattern above the roof as a decoration and as a convenient way to finish the ...

6. Ventilation (architecture) - Wikipedia

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   The furnace, built on the outside of the workshop, featured earthen pipe-like air vents with hundreds of tiny holes in them and a prototype chimney to ensure air goes into the furnace to feed the fire and smoke comes out safely. [39] Passive ventilation and passive cooling systems were widely written about around the Mediterranean by Classical ...

7. Heat and smoke vent - Wikipedia

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   The majority of guidance available for design of heat and smoke building vents installed in buildings is restricted to nonsprinklered, single-story buildings. [4] This is partly a historical consequence of the installation of heat and smoke vents following the August 1953 General Motors, Livonia, MI major fire in a nonsprinklered manufacturing facility which effectively stopped the production ...