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that on rock conglomerate or other hard ground of an incom
pressible nature, or in sandy, unstable or soft ground the Sur
veyor General may permit or require the foundations of all works
and buildings to be of such special depth and width, and of such
materials as being in each particular case applicable to such
ground shall be approved by him .
16. Every party wall shall be carried up above the roof of Height of
every building to a height of at least eighteen inches, measured party wall.
at right angles to the slope of the roof, and every such party
wall shall be properly coped or otherwise protected, in order to
prevent water from soaking into such wall.
17. When buildings shall have ceased to be in the occupation Opening
of the same person any openings previously made through the through
wall .
party
party wall shall be solidly stopped up with brick or stone-work
of the full thickness of the party wall and properly bonded there
with. Recesses may be made in party walls and in external walls,
provided that every recess is arched over, that the aggregate
area of such recesses does not exceed one half the whole area of
the wall of the story in which they are made, and that thebacks
of such recesses are of not less thickness than thirteen inches in
party walls, and nine inches in external walls. In the case of
a shop front left open to the street the side walls or party walls
shall be returned along such front for at least twelve inches
where the house has more, and for at least six inches where the
house has not more than one story above the ground floor, and
such return walls shall be properly bonded into the side walls
or party walls .
18. Structures maile wholly or partly of glass or iron , or other Structures.
material not provided for in this ordinance or any amending 1891. {20:25
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ordinance may be designed otherwise than herein provideil and
shall be deemed to be exceptional buildings , and shall be subject to
the approval of the Surveyor General in each particular case.
19. Notwithstanding anything herein to the contrary pro- Buildings
vided , where buildings are in rural districts such buildings if leases
under may
ruralbe
entirely detached from other buildings and separated by a ofwood.
distance of not less than one hundred and fifty feet from any
neighbouring building in different ownership , may have walls
and verandahs constructed wholly or partly of wood , and such
buildings shall be deemed to be exceptional structures and shall
be subject to the approval of the Surveyor General in each
particular case .
Bressummers or Lintels.
20. Every bressummer used in a building must have a bearing Bressummers
of at least six inches at each end , and must rest upon a sufficient or lintels.
pier of brick or stone, or iron story -post fixed on a solid ( Suficient
required, No.
25 of 1891 ,
8.7.]