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Survey of London
… 18278 to provide clean impounded water to keep the water level in the docks high and so prevent an influx of water and … provided, the lock became an ungated passage, as the water level in the dock could be maintained by the new impounding … sections of the timber lining of the old dock and the quay level copings were rebuilt in concrete, probably in 19445 to …
Survey of London
… tower is shorter, as its stroke continued below ground level. The towers originally had double doors under boarded tympana. The upper-level hatch openings are secondary insertions. 77 The … 10-ton side coal tips, simple wrought-iron girdered quay-level platforms over hydraulic rams, some with turntables to …
Survey of London
… the south side. 4 The line of street itself has never been level. From Wade's Place it rises to the Recreation Ground, … was made available for development by freehold sales. The level of development thus varied from poor, when developed … life. The supply of the demand for housing at the lowest level was thought remunerative, and from mid-century the …
Survey of London
… included the insertion of a mezzanine at first-floor level in the former board-room, the removal of the 1925 … two rooms and a lean-to. The floor was below street level (as was usual in Poplar's slum courts) and rain came … placed low in the front walls but above floor level. The freehold, like that of the Red Lion, continued in …
Survey of London
… plinth from the top of the ground storey down to ground level. On the west elevation the four central first-floor windows go down to floor level and open on to narrow concrete balconies with iron … on the outside of Gorsefield House at ground-floor level (Plate 135a). Perry's Close Scheme. Although the LCC …
Survey of London
… worked Portland-stone masonry of the faade below cornice level and the modernism of large, unmodelled 'studio-light' … the garden on the east of the path 'was on a much lower level than the pavement and was reached by stone steps. It … rear part has a two-storey club-room rising from basement level, thus accommodating the steep fall of the site that has …
Survey of London
… of the principal nave rafters flanking the crossing at the level of the nave upper purlins. Rather than continuing these …
Survey of London
… bay of the nave is now elevated a step above the main level, the chancel two steps higher, the sanctuary a step …
An Inventory of the Historical Monuments in Dorset
… (9 ft. by 8 ft.) has been partly heightened to give a level parapet. The entrance archway is two-centred and of one …