Glossary · J
Jetty
Also called jettied, jettying, jetties
The overhang of an upper storey in a timber-framed building: the floor joists run out past the wall below and carry the wall above on their ends, a foot or two further out.
See also: Bressumer, Close studding
Rules that use the word
Timber over masonry, jettied bays over the street. Build the house with a masonry ground storey and timber-framed upper storeys, and jetty the upper rooms out over the street in bays (çıkma) on brackets, squaring them over the irregular plot and turning their many windows to light, air and view.
Where it appears in the book
In the chapters The House in England and America.
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