The brick window openings are topped by concrete lintels.
These are buildings that know how to make streets and frame courtyards, crisply detailed with biscuity bricks and pre-cast concrete lintels.
It bears touches of the surrounding architecture, completed in 1933, with custom antiqued brickwork, a pitched slate roof, Yorkshire glass windows with concrete lintels, and stone copings at the parapets.
She also claimed £136 for coal, £70.50 for repairs to an Indesit washer, £31.09 from Wickes for building materials including building sand, concrete, a knife lintel, gravel board and concrete trimming.
In order to study the unilateral contact effects (i.e. separation, sliding) between the lintels of reinforced concrete over the openings or the reinforced concrete tie beams at floor levels and the masonry wall, a parametric non-linear dynamic analysis was performed.
Much modern construction in steel and concrete is based on the post-and-lintel system, restoring the formal simplicity of the oldest structures to modern architecture.
Major structural elements are in exposed fair-faced (that is to say: glass-smooth) concrete: the structure of sometimes daringly spanned posts and lintels is visible throughout.
Their components are completely different from wedge-shaped blocks; they may be made entirely rigid so as to require only vertical support; they may be of hinged intersections that work independently, or they may be thin slabs or members (in reinforced concrete) in which stresses are so distributed that they add the advantages of lintels to those of arches, requiring only light supports.
Stone, which has this property, is more versatile as a post than as a lintel; under heavy loads it is superior to wood but not to iron, steel, or reinforced concrete.
