Sentence examples for beam roofs from inspiring English sources

The houses are built on the slopes of a huge cirque of rocks that encloses the village; the houses are constructed of stones with flat beam roofs.

"With brownstones, you often have to be careful with the structure itself, because they tend to have old wooden beam roofs, so weight can become an issue," Ms. White said.

At the non-complete extraction stage, the periodic pressure from the main roof is mainly caused by the combination impact or individual impact from the broken cantilever beam roof in the irregular caving zone, and the broken or overturned overlying beam roof fixed at the two ends.

But at the complete extraction stage, the periodical pressure from the main roof is mainly caused by the periodical broken, overturn and unstable arch beam roof in the regular caving zone.

Sure, you could take half a day to explore Edinburgh Castle, but why not try these top three sights within: the tiny St Margaret's Chapel, which dates from the 12th Century; the Great Hall, with its 16th Century hammer beam roof; and the Scottish National War Memorial.

The building contains a collar beam roof and a 16th-century staircase, moulded ceiling and aumbry cupboard.

Hammer-beam roof, English medieval timber roof system used when a long span was needed.

You pass a great hall with a hammer-beam roof and Ford Madox Brown murals.

The dining area has a fireplace and an arched raised timber-beam roof.

Colonial Williamsburg carpenters hewed beams, roof shingles and clapboards out of tulip poplar, white cedar and cypress timbers.

A particular instance of this is the English hammer-beam roof, which was a kind of corbeled truss that could span quite long distances.