Re: Beckfoot layout


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Posted by Peter Ceresole on January 04, 2009 at 11:34:49 user PeterC.

In Reply to: Re: Beckfoot layout posted by Jock on January 04, 2009 at 01:38:43:

It seems that some TarBoarders call the ground floor of a house the 'first floor', and the first floor the 'second floor'.

If they're North American, they almost certainly will. It's one of those features of the language that forever separates the two shores of the Atlantic and leads to confusion in lifts.

A landing, I think, always has a staircase leading down from it, but in a large house it may also form the base for another staircase running up to the next landing, and so on.

Well yes. A feature of Victorian and Edwardian houses in Britain is the split staircase with a break and a landing in the middle- certainly I've lived in four 19th century London houses, in fact I live in one now, and they all clearly came out of the same basic builder's catalogues. All of them had split level stairs. I suspect that there was an economic reason; it shortens the stair beams, which are always one of the more expensive items for the builder to source, and whose cost, logically enough, increases with the span.

There's another reason; reducing that length of the flight of stairs means they can be fitted into a smaller house. It's also a nice feature. But it doesn't need to be a large house.


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