alternatives to fully glazed windows in new domestic work, however
inappropriate they may appear.
Windows can broadly be divided into two main types, first the window
set in the side walls of a building, and second the opening light set into
the roof, generally known as rooflights.
The daylight penetration from side windows will depend upon the
ceiling height, and in early buildings where the ceiling heights were low,
the penetration of daylight into the building was severely limited... with
the design of the important houses of the seventeenth and eighteenth
centuries the ceiling heights were raised and daylight was able to reach
further into the interiors. However as buildings became grander, even
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Carpenters’ shop, Weald and Downland
MuseumSplayed recessClerestories, York Minster Soane Museum frontage Georgian window, Soane museum
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