Restored and leveled north replacement outlooker

Cantilevered, tapered, and chamfered north oak outlooker, re-cycled from another early building and cut to the presumed early form, leveled with its southern counterpart, is "checked"[split] along the grain, but structurally adequate to carry its share of the cellar-kitchen doorway hood. The wet appearance of the timber at the left edge of the photo is a result of fluid treatment applied to protect the embedded portion of the outlooker from fungus and rot caused by moisture migrating through the masonry. The treated portion will be embedded in the restored masonry above the doorway and anchored by a tenon inserted through a mortise in a short “anchor-beam” (“header”) tenoned into flanking floor joists [see DTR09PH111 and DTR09PH108--1001.01.204.] Larry Ward, 2010