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pediments, which may project any dis-
tance approved by the Surveyor, provided
any such cornice be not less than twelve
feet from the crown mould to the foot
way, and all projections of every charac-
ter must be built of the same materials
as are by these regulations directed to be
used for building external walls, and it
shall not be lawful to project any other
part of a building beyond the street line
than those parts above allowed.

Division of Buildings.

23. If any building be hereafter
    erected with separate entrances, or sepa-
    rate staircases, or if such building shall
    be hereafter converted, used, or occupied
    as two or more separate buildings, each
    having a separate entrance or staircase,
    then every such building shall be deemed
    to be two or more separate houses, and
    such separate houses must be divided
    from each other by a party wall as set
    forth in Schedule A to these regulations.

Privies.

24. A privy shall not be deemed to be
    a new building within the meaning of
    theese regulations.

25. No cesspool to any privy already
    constructed, or hereafter to be constructed,
    shall be sunk or maintained at a less
    distance than nine feet from the land of
    any adjoining owner, and every such
    cesspool must be lined with brickwork,
    and cemented so as to render it thoroughly
    watertight.

Heights.

26. The height of any building, or of
    any part thereof, is to be ascertained by
    measuring from the surface of the lowest
    floor up to the top of the wall plate for
    receiving the roof.

Openings.

27. In all external walls, besides all
    requisite openings for doors and windows,
    recesses may be formed so that the back
    thereof be of the thickness of 8½ inches
    at the least, and so that the sufficiency
    and stability of the wall be not, in the
    opinion of the Surveyor, injuriously af-
    fected by making such recesses.

Parapets.

28. Every external wall and party wall
    hereafter built of bricks, stone, or cement
    concrete, must be carried up and remain
    eighteen inches at least above the highest
    part of the adjacent gutter, and the thick-
    ness of any external wall or party wall
    so carried up above the level of the
    gutter, and forming a parapet, must be
    at least 8½ inches; and should any
    external wall or party wall be finished
    with a gable, the same shall be carried up
    at least 8½ inches thick, fifteen inches
    above the roof at least, measured at right
    angles to the back of the rafter.

Walls.

29. Any wall less than thirteen inches
    thick, carrying a roof with principals, or
    extending for a greater distance than
    twenty feet without being tied in with a
    return wall of brick, stone, or cement
    concrete, or with a framed stud partition,
    must be strengthened with piers having
    at least four inches projection by nine
    inches wide, and not exceeding twelve
    feet apart. Any third storey enclosed
    by a wall less than thirteen inches thick
    must not exceed ten feet in height.

30. No part of any external or internal
    wall, or partition not constructed as a
    party wall, shall be nearer to any stove,
    grate, or other apparatus for containing
    fire, than at a distance of eighteen inches
    therefrom. Any wall or partition which,
    in the opinion of the Surveyor, shall
    require protection from fire in conse-
    quence of such apparatus, stove pipe, or
    flue, shall be protected in such manner,
    to such extent, and with such material
    as he shall, in writing, require.

31. The external walls of every new
    building erected for the purpose of con-
    taining, or containing any fire place, or
    furnace, to be used in the working of any
    engine by steam (although such engine
    may not be used therein), or in any mill,
    brewery, bakehouse, gasworks, or in any
    manufactory whatever, shall be con-
    structed of brick, or stone, or cement
    concrete, of the thickness prescribed in
    Schedule A, and the roof covered in with
    iron or other incombustible material.
    Provided always that such building may
    be constructed of wood framing covered
    with iron, if more than ten feet from any
    adjoining premises. For the purposes
    of this provision, doors, door frames,
    windows, window frames, shop fronts, and
    mouldings, and projections of walls, shall
    not be deemed to be parts of the external
    walls or of the flat, gutter, or roof thereof.

32. Any person using, or building, or
    keeping for use, any furnace, and receiv-
    ing from any other person notice of any
    building being, or being about to be erected
    within ten feet of such furnace, shall
    forthwith erect a party wall of brick,
    stone, or cement concrete, between such
    furnace and the site of such intended
    building. The party wall, to be erected
    in pursuance of Clause 32, shall be of
    such length and height respectively as
    the Surveyor shall certify, in writing, to
    be sufficient to protect the building from
    any danger by fire arising from the
    furnace.

33. All external walls not raised in
    brickwork, stone or cement concrete, and
    within sixty inches of any adjoining
    premises, must be covered with galvanized
    corrugated iron of not less than 26 gauge
    (street frontage only excepted), and have
    timbers of the following areas on cross
    section:—