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The dance hall with two large front facing windows is decorated with paintings of previous residents and a large painting of Queen Ann which sits above a brick fireplace. Next to this is a wooden bar area that leads into the tapestry room while at the room's centre is a parquet dance floor which has been damaged to reveal stone flooring underneath.
Inside the house is an inglenook fireplace. [8] [9] II: Batworth Cottage: 1694 The house, later divided, is in chalk and brick, with painted quoins, and a pantile roof with coped gables and shaped kneelers. There are two storeys and three bays
A brick flue (Russian: боров) in the attic, sometimes with a chamber for smoking food, is required to slow down the cooling of the stove. [3] Russian stove in an izba, photographed before 1917. The Russian stove is usually in the centre of the log hut . The builders of Russian stoves are referred to as pechniki, "stovemakers". Good ...
Ceilings are tongue and groove boarding. Circular fretwork vents are central to five existing ceilings. An unpainted brick fireplace remains in seasonal use. A second fireplace, originally from the Bellevue Hotel in Brisbane, has been installed in the enclosed verandah space adjoining the restaurant extension. The new section incorporates other ...
The interior walls are plaster on brick. Three rooms and the foyer feature hand-painted wall treatments created in the mid-19th century. The most elaborate painting is found in the parlor, where an unknown artisan used blue, lavender, burgundy, and gold leaf to create beautiful designs throughout, including a detailed cross motif above the door ...
The brick chimney was a prominent feature in Victorian homes, consisting of a fireplace, chimney breast and chimney stack that protruded above the roof line to exhaust smoke. [4] Victorian houses were generally built in terraces or as detached houses. Building materials were brick or local stone.
Clinker brick closeup of bricks in the so-called Clinker building on Barrow street in Greenwich Village, New York City. Clinker is sometimes spelled "klinker" which is the contemporary Dutch word for the brick. Both terms are onomatopoeic, derived from the Middle Dutch klinkaerd, later klinker, from klinken (“to ring, resound”).
On the west wall of the hall is an ornate sandstone fireplace with decorated pilasters carrying a carved frieze and cornice. [1] On the fireplace is a painting of the arms of the Gamul family, which Pevsner considers was executed by Randle Holme. [6] The barrel-vaulted plaster ceiling has eight richly-carved pendants. [1]