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The beginnings of the feudal residence on the site of the chateau go back to the end of the 13th century. It underwent numerous reconstructions. The most significant took place at the end of the 15th century and beginning of the 16th century under the rule of the lords of Pernštejn. The original castle was transformed into a palace. A new, massive fortress was built around it. Thus, a combination of a castle and chateau was created. No building of this type has been preserved to this extent in Central Europe. Highly valuable remains of early renaissance wall paintings, two soffit ceilings, plus valuable elements of architecture such as the entry portal. The Pernštejns sold the chateau and manor to the King in 1560. The last significant reconstructions date back to the 1570s. The original furnishings of the interior were not preserved. The chateau is now the residence of the Museum of East Bohemia in Pardubice and part of the area is also used by the Gallery of East Bohemia.
This male hummingbird has been sitting often on this perch under the soffit to dry off. Even he is tired of all our rain. Kitchen window filter. Isle Lake Alberta
The Ouse Valley Viaduct (or the Balcombe Viaduct) carries the London-Brighton Railway Line over the River Ouse in Sussex. It is located to the north of Haywards Heath and to the south of Balcombe. Known for its ornate design, the structure has been described as "probably the most elegant viaduct in Britain."
Construction of the Ouse Valley Viaduct commenced by the London & Brighton Railway company during 1839. It was designed by the principal engineer for the line, John Urpeth Rastrick, in association with the architect of the London to Brighton railway, David Mocatta. The viaduct is 96 feet (29 m) high and is carried on 37 semi-circular arches, each of 30 feet (9.1 m), surmounted by balustrades, spanning a total length of 1,480 feet (450 m). Each pier contains a jack arch with a semi-circular soffit, which had the benefit of reducing the number of bricks required..The roughly 11 million bricks required for its construction were mostly shipped up the River Ouse (via Newhaven and Lewes) from the Netherlands. On 12 July 1841, the viaduct was officially opened to train services, although the structure was not fully completed until the following year.
C14 or C15. Coursed ragstone with ashlar coping to parapet. Six round-headed arches; 3 spanning river, that to centre taller, 2 slightly smaller to west and one smaller still and at an angle, to east. Double hollow chamfer to central arch, single hollow chamfer to rest, and ashlared soffits. 6 cutwaters on hollow-chamfered stone plinths to south (upstream side) and 4 to north, all carried up into parapet to form refuges.
The viaduct was built in 1874 to carry the Bristol and North Somerset Railway over the valley of the River Chew. The last scheduled passenger train to cross the viaduct was on 31 October 1959; after that there were only goods trains which ceased in 1964.
Construction is of stone piers and spandrels with red brick soffits. The viaduct is 995 feet (303 m) long, reaches a maximum height of 95 feet (29 m) to rail level and consists of sixteen arches. The arches are of different widths and heights and supported by tall, tapering piers in the centre and thicker shorter ones towards the sides.
C14 or C15. Coursed ragstone with ashlar coping to parapet. Six round-headed arches; 3 spanning river, that to centre taller, 2 slightly smaller to west and one smaller still and at an angle, to east. Double hollow chamfer to central arch, single hollow chamfer to rest, and ashlared soffits. 6 cutwaters on hollow-chamfered stone plinths to south (upstream side) and 4 to north, all carried up into parapet to form refuges. Parapet possibly renewed at a later date. 3 outer arches rebuilt in early C19
One more architectural pic....this was when I looked up while having dinner in the Sky World Entertainment Centre in Auckland.
One of the Denver airport hotels was "hosting" swarming Cliff Swallows that were intent on establishing a colony under the soffits and eaves all around the building. This picture shows the beginnings of the nests and the swallows clinging to the bare faces of bricks on the fourth story of the hotel.
In the upper right corner of the picture, one nest is a bit farther along in construction, but when complete, a continuous line of fully-enclosed swallow nests will ring the roofline of the hotel.
A earlier post is included, in the first comment below, showing a Swallow pair that could not find an open nesting space in the protected area under the soffit/eaves.
Upper deck curvature to an external stairwell on MV Balmoral, a cruise ship operated by Fred Olsen Cruise Lines. This photo taken alongside in the port of Valletta during the company's 'Far East Explorer' journey.
Excerpt from stcatharines.ca:
Numbers 21 and 23 Power Glen was also built in 1905 by the Power Company, and rightfully named the Hydro House, because it was built larger to house the Superintendent of the plant. The two storey house constructed in the Georgian Revival Style, and much of its original character still remains, including: the hipped roof; the placement of the house, which sits on a stone foundation of Grimsby sandstone; the bay window on the front, which may or may not be original; the bay windows spanning the two storeys on the gable side; the pattern of window and door openings; the exterior window and door trim, and wood sills; the inset of the chimney; the deep soffits; and the asymmetrical balance of the façade.
I believe this is a female the wing span was about 4"inches. Isle Lake Alberta. Thanks to Don Delaney for the ID. My neighbour found her under the garage soffit. I never seen one this big in Alberta before.
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216 Lakeshore Road East: This fine stone building was constructed in 1937 as Oakville's fifth post office. It later served as the Oakville Public Library from 1956 to 1967.
It is built in Beaux Arts style. The temple-like front space, one-piece cut stone window surround, lintel with a decorative keystone motif, and the rigid symmetry of the balanced façade denote the architectural significance of the building. Other features include the deep bracketed soffit and cornice boards, the applied decorative motifs over the front door, dressed sandstone, combined with the steeply pitched copper clad, and hipped roof with battens.
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75 Second Street (1850): Originally used as a farmhouse. During the 1900s, it became the home of Dr. Black. The Arnoldi family of Toronto purchased the property and lived in the house between 1914-1918. It is a 19th century 2 1/2 storey stucco house with 2 bays. Architectural details include moulded soffit and brackets, bay window and main entranceway with piered door surrounds and broken pediment.
The Ouse Valley Viaduct (also called Balcombe Viaduct) carries the London-Brighton Railway Line over the River Ouse in Sussex. It is located to the north of Haywards Heath and to the south of Balcombe. Known for its ornate design, the structure has been described as "probably the most elegant viaduct in Britain."
Construction of the Ouse Valley Viaduct commenced by the London & Brighton Railway company during 1839. It was designed by the principal engineer for the line, John Urpeth Rastrick, in association with the architect of the London to Brighton railway, David Mocatta. The viaduct is 96 feet (29 m) high and is carried on 37 semi-circular arches, each of 30 feet (9.1 m), surmounted by balustrades, spanning a total length of 1,480 feet (450 m). Each pier contains a Jack arch with a semi-circular soffit, which had the benefit of reducing the number of bricks required. The roughly 11 million bricks required for its construction were mostly shipped up the River Ouse (via Newhaven and Lewes) from the Netherlands. On 12 July 1841, the viaduct was officially opened to train services, although the structure was not fully completed until the following year.
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These old tin roofs are usually the last to go on these old houses. It looks like a wind storm got the corner of this one.
This style of house is very typical here in the Northern Neck of Virginia, with the roof soffit extending into the center triangle. Also, the blinds and curtains were so popular in the day and they never seem to wear out. People seem to love the style and keep them up as long as there is a thread left.
I noticed that the owners put a little money into hiring a decent gardener. Our local gardener (only one) would never have trimmed that bush or mowed the lawn.
Viaduct, still in use, built in 1879 by Sir Thomas Bouch as part of the North British Arbroath and Montrose Railway. A second section built by Bouch to the north was declared unsafe after testing in 1880 and replaced (see NO75NW0039). It is a 17-span curved brick viaduct with semicircular arches on slightly battered rectangular piers. The A92 road runs beneath the southernmost arch. The brickwork is predominantly English bond, with a roughly tooled stone band course above the arches and a low parapet with plain metal railings. To the west side of the southernmost arch is a small raised shield bearing initials, possibly 'RIN', and dated 1879. There are various reinforcement plates, applied predominantly regularly, and a railway track reinforcement applied to the soffit of the northernmost arch. The east side of the south end has a sloping stone coped wing wall. It has seen significant repointing and brick-replacement during the 1990s.
The pièce de résistance of bridges in the Berwick-Upon-Tweed area of the UK is the Royal Border Bridge which was built between 1847 and 1850 to carry train traffic. It was the last link in the east coast rail line from London to Edinburgh. It is a gently curved 28-arch bridge that is 659 meters in length and carries trains 37 meters above the River Tweed. The bridge is constructed in masonry with brickwork soffits that form the underside of the arches and is covered by stone cladding. 15 of of the arches are over land south of the river while 13 are over the river itself. It is considered by many to be one of the finest railway viaducts in the world.
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Difficult to Photograph due to the Overgrown tree's and access etc,
A Disused railway viaduct. c.1849 for the York, Newcastle and Berwick Railway. Rock-faced stone with brick soffits to arches. Iron railings. 6 tall, broad segmental arches on battered piers with cornice bands. Low parapet with plain railings. Low end piers with shallow pyramidal caps. I would imagine this closed with the The Beeching cuts
You will in a minute if you read this. I have practically hid in my computer/printing room all day today as the men from a local company came to fit new cladding, guttering fascia boards and soffits plus new insulation. The men arrived in a van and knocked on the back door. Jonathan welcomed them and said he had parked up to save them a space immediately outside our back gate.
Well the anger of one particular man had to be heard to be believed. " What ! Out there ? We need to be outside your front door. Rather perplexed Jonathan told them there was no parking outside our front door as we face out onto a footpath which the salesman had clearly seen when standing in our front garden. Things rapidly went from bad to worse throughout the day. My already shredded nerves are in ribbons honestly so I just shut the door and played.......they are retuning on Monday :(
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Norman and his crew getting ready to work repairing the soffits of this sprawling, 92-unit, senior housing complex in Ukiah, called, appropriately, Autumn Leaves. What better time than mid-autumn.
Fun fact: I once applied for subsidized housing at this complex. Eventually, however, I was able to continue renting the house I was living in.
GPS is 39.143698, -123.199593.
Contractor Norman Hudson called me on February 18, 2021 to tell me he was in line to get the first dose of the Covid-19 vaccine. He died two days later, at 77 years of age. He thus fulfilled his often-expressed desire never to retire.
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2. Hutchinson-Stubbs House
(c1870) 43 Sledman Street
The house, built by local farmer John Hutchinson, was once part of a much larger property that included a total of ten village lots. His widow Abigail sold the property to John Stubbs (1838-1909) after her husband’s death in 1896. John’s two daughters Agnes and Annie, were both well- known dressmakers in Malton. The house later passed to the Lubin family. The house is a one and a half storey red and buff brick structure with a stone foundation. Noted features of the structure include buff brick quoining, buff brick radiating and horizontal window framing voussoirs, bay windows on the southeast and northeast facades, a mansard bell curve type roof, heavy wooden soffit detailing, scrolled brackets, detailed bargeboard on the main gable, and extensive decorative woodwork.
Royal Border Bridge spans the River Tweed between Berwick-upon-Tweed and Tweedmouth in Northumberland, England. It is a Grade I listed railway viaduct built between 1847 and 1850, when it was opened by Queen Victoria. The engineer who designed it was Robert Stephenson (son of George Stephenson). It was built for the York, Newcastle and Berwick Railway and is still in regular use today, as part of the East Coast Main Line. Despite its name, the bridge does not in fact span the border between England and Scotland, which is approximately three miles further north.
The bridge is 659 metres (2,162 ft) long and constructed in stone except for brick soffits to the arches. It has 28 arches, each spanning 60 feet (18 m). The railway is carried 37 metres (121 ft) above the river level.
The Macnab house was built in 1905 and is a good example of two story brick buildings erected by the merchant class at the time. The property is a corner lot with
a steep slope and high limestone
retaining walls at the rear. The
building may be described as basically a Classical Revival style
of architectural design with many of its Queen Anne elements either adapted or modified. The Queen Anne style (1880-
1910) was a predominant domestic building style of the late nineteenth century. Many were large single-family residences erected by prosperous businessmen. The foundation of this house is random course, squared limestone in original condition. The whole house is in its original condition both on the exterior and the interior with the exception of the wide soffits being re- clad in aluminum, the cedar shingles being replaced with asphalt and the reconstruction of the chimney.
Designated: July 11, 1994
Address: 82 Tecumseth Street
243
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410 Lakeshore Road East (1850, 1853): Reputed to be built by George Griggs in 1850. Thompson Smith, owner of a planing mill in Oakville. It was remodelled and enlarged in 1863. Medical doctor D.D. Wright owned the property and used the back portion of the house, which is now 88 Second Street, as his office. It is a 2-storey stucco house with gable roof. Architectural details include projecting eaves, moulded soffit, plain frieze, projecting verges, 12/12 windows and entranceway with entablature supported by squared columns.
The Great North of Scotland Railway opened its through line along the Moray coast in April 1886, connecting Portsoy with Elgin. The central section included a number of significant structures including the impressive Cullen Viaduct which looks out to sea over the rooftops of Seatown.
The Grade B listed structure is formed of bullfaced rubble with eight rusticated ashlar arch rings and brick soffits. Work on it started in 1884 under the auspices of engineer P M Barnett. It was necessitated by the Seafield Estate’s refusal to allow the railway to encroach onto its land further south near Cullen House.
Text source: www.forgottenrelics.org/bridges/cullen-viaduct/
The line closed in 1968, and the viaduct is now used as a recreational path, part of the Moray Firth Trail and the Sustrans national cycle path.
Cullen is a village and former royal burgh in Moray but historically in Banffshire, Scotland, on the North Sea coast. The village had a population of 1,327 in 2001. The organs of the wife of Robert the Bruce are said to have been buried in its old kirk after her death in Cullen Castle.
When it gets really cold they cling to the side of the house just outside the kitchen window... it is the south facing wall and the sun is on it for hours of the day.
I'm sure they love it, but, when they also peck on the house trying to find insects or whatever...I have to scold them and they do fly off.
They have such strong beaks that they are damaging the faux rock ... and, last year they made a hole in the soffits. Mister BV is not a happy camper when he hears any pecking...... he is ready to hide the nuts and seeds and discourage their visits.
Male Northern Flicker
The pileated woodpeckers are bringing their young to feast on our soffits. I love catching them, but not when causing damage to our house!
Les belles maisons de Saintt-Joseph de
Beauce.Québec,Canada.
Construite avant 1895.
La grande galerie en façade recouverte d'un auvent, en tôle agrafée, contourne d'un côté la maison. Le soffite du larmier est ornementé de dentelures. Le portique central est imposant par ses colonnes jumelées et son fronton. Des colonnes doriques sur bases et une balustrade ouvragée complètent la façade.
En 1895, cette maison a d'abord appartenu au charron Delphis Poulin. Puis la famille de monsieur Alphonse Giguère l'a habitée de 1911 à 1969.
Beautiful houses of Saintt-Joseph de Beauce.
Built before 1895.
The large front gallery covered with a canopy, sheet stapled, bypasses one side home. The soffit drip edge is ornamented with serrations. The central portico is impressive by its twin columns and pediment. Doric columns on bases and an ornate balustrade round the front.
In 1895, this house first belonged to wheelwright Delphis Poulin. Then the family of Mr. Alphonse Giguere was inhabited from 1911 to 1969.
the public atrium or central space of the Star Vista building in Singapore - the main circulation areas are naturally ventilated and cooled.
Als Diederichstempel werden zwei Aussichtspavillons bei Burg und Müngsten, südöstlich von Solingen oberhalb der Wupper bezeichnet.
Der Müngstener Pavillon ist in neugotischem Stil gebaut und hat eine siebeneckige Grundform. Er wurde im Jahr 1901 errichtet. 1905 ließ Diederichs auch diese Decke bemalen, hiervon ist jedoch nichts mehr vorhanden. Das Dach hat gegenwärtig eine Blechverkleidung. Der Zementstuck imitiert auf den Außenwänden bis in die Laibungen der Spitzbögen eine Natursteinquaderung. Die Säulen sind mit einem Halsring und gotisierenden Knospenkapitellen versehen. Darüber schließen sich ein schmales Wulstprofil, ein breiter glatter verputzter Streifen und das profilierte Traufgesims an. Die geschweifte Haube ist mit geprägten Kupferblechen belegt und mit einer Wetterfahne bekrönt.
Two lookout pavilions near Burg and Müngsten, southeast of Solingen above the Wupper river, are called Diederichstempel.
The Müngsten pavilion is built in neo-Gothic style and has a heptagonal base. It was built in 1901. In 1905 Diederichs also had this ceiling painted, but nothing remains of it. The roof currently has sheet metal cladding. The cement stucco on the exterior walls imitates natural stone ashlar up to the soffits of the pointed arches. The columns have a neck ring and gothic bud capitals. Above this, a narrow bead profile, a wide smooth plastered strip and the profiled eaves cornice join. The curved bonnet is covered with embossed copper sheets and crowned with a weather vane.
NO!, squirrels are not “cute”, but they certainly are interesting and provide an occasional good photo opportunity. Evil, vindictive squirrelly squirrels have nawed thru my house soffit and cost me a couple of thousand dollars to repair & replace that vandalized soffit. They have also vandalized my truck by nawing through my gas line that cost me over $600. Guess that’s why they are so squirrelly!
The squirrelly little bastards are lucky that they are so photogenic and my hobby is photography instead of hunting. I shoot them with my Nikon, instead of my Remington shotgun. The vandalism must stop!