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Checked Timber

DeTurk , S outlooker over kitchen door set into the header (2009)
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Restored and leveled south replacement outlooker

DeTurk · 12/07/2009

The cantilevered, tapered, and chamfered oak outlooker, re-cycled from another early building and cut to the presumed early form, leveled with its northern counterpart and relative to the doorway lintel, is "checked"[split] along the grain, but structurally adequate to carry its share of a replicated doorway hood. The wet appearance of the timber at the righ

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DeTurk, restored wall above kitchen doorway, pier, N hood outlooker (2009)
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Restored east masonry wall and replacement outlookers

DeTurk · 12/07/2009

Restored wall above and to the north of the ground-level DeTurk kitchen door with replacement north hood outlooker. Details include: pegged mortise-and-tenon joint between the doorway lintel and north jamb, checked timber, filleted bead{1} molding on interior edges [“arrises”] of the door jamb and lintel. Final pointing will conceal the end-grain of the

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DeTurk, restored wall above kitchen doorway, pier & and S  hood outlooker (
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Restored east masonry wall and replacement outlookers

DeTurk · 12/07/2009

Restored wall above and to the south of the ground-level DeTurk kitchen door with replacement south hood outlooker. Details include: pegged mortise-and-tenon joint between the doorway lintel and south jamb; checked timber; filleted bead mouldings{1} on edges of mitered jamb and lintel of the door. Stones removed from above doorway were laid out in "mirro

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