knee wall

They used the exact same stone to build the knee walls and chimney trim for the house up here.

Farrell turned slowly from the balustrade, lay down his rifle, and opened the door in the knee wall behind him.

Its knee wall is made of timber.

Bellini squatted at the door in the knee wall and listened to Flynn's voice through the public address system.

The house features a Tuscan-columned porch supported on a rusticated concrete block knee wall.

He finally found a place that recalled using some of this imported limestone for a series of rock knee walls."

Hauptstraße 33 - one-floor timber-frame house, partly solid, with knee wall, possibly 18th century.

The gallery features a continuously paneled knee wall, ranked wooden floors, and simple handmade pews.

Fischbachstraße 6 - estate complex, 19th century, house with knee wall, former cottage/bakehouse, somewhat more recent (?)

A knee wall is a short wall, typically under three feet (one metre) in height, used to support the rafters in timber roof construction.

During an attic renovation project, he said, it is common for homeowners to install short "knee walls" between the attic floor and the sloped roof.

Am Storchenhaus 13 - timber-frame house, partly solid, late 19th century, raised with a knee wall; quarrystone winepress house.

The brick or wood base makes up the main support for the PVC, referred to as the "knee wall", which is attached to the top of it.

The knee wall takes the place of a purlin, providing support to rafters which therefore need not be large enough to span from the ridge to the eaves.

Without hesitation she dropped into a catcher's crouch and began to finger the sooty stone knee wall that had once supported the post-and-beam walls of the cowboys' living quarters.

If that is done, Mr. Keefe said, it is advisable to include within the thermal envelope the triangular space created by the knee walls outside the new living space.

That is done by insulating from the bottom of the roof to where it meets the knee wall and then over the top of the living space and across to the other side of the roof.

In his book A Visual Dictionary of Architecture, Francis D. K. Ching defines a knee wall as "a short wall supporting rafters at some intermediate position along their length."

Knee walls are common in old houses in which the ceiling on the top floor is an attic, i.e. the ceiling is the underside of the roof and slopes down on one or more sides.

Typically the knee wall is finished with plaster, enclosing the useful part of the attic space (not necessarily high enough for a person to stand up), while the remaining small space under the eaves is only useful for storage.