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the window be less in height than twice the width of the court. This will
improve the spaces provided at the rear, and in the return angles of both
mansion flats and artizans' blocks of dwellings.
The Superintending Architect may determine which is the front or rear of a
building by the next section.
By section forty-seven, the height of absolutely new buildings is restricted
to eighty feet, but the height of artizans' dwellings is limited to the width of
the street by sub-section five of section thirteen of the Act.
Section 13 (5) * * * * *
Provided always that no dwelling-house to be inhabited, or adapted to be inhabited,
by persons of the working classes shall, without the consent of the Council,
be erected or re-erected within the prescribed distance to a height exceeding
the distance of the front or nearest external wall of such building from the
opposite side of such street, and that no building or structure shall be converted
into such dwelling-house within the prescribed distance so as to
exceed such height:
In the next section is set forth the procedure to be adopted when the Council
gives special consent to the erection of buildings of a greater height than
eighty feet.
Section forty-nine re-enacts that no building in any street less than fifty
feet wide laid out subsequent to August, 1862, shall exceed the width of the
street in height.
It is permitted by the fiftieth section to raise the top storey of any building
in order to increase the height of the rooms in conformity with section seventy
of this Act—quoted later on in the report. It must be mentioned here that
it is permitted to construct the roof of any building, except of the warehouse
class, so as to incline at an angle of seventy-five degrees with the horizontal,
that is falling back at an angle of only fifteen degrees from the perpendicular
[Section 61 (4)], and two stories may be constructed in the roof of a domestic
building [Section 62 (1)].
Section fifty-one permits the re-erection of artizans' dwellings belonging to
a local authority on the same site and of the original dimensions.
Section fifty-two is a saving clause for domestic buildings with stables in the
rear, if the depth of the site be less than one hundred and fifty feet, and the
stables less than twenty-five feet high, they may be treated as one building
under Section forty-one of the Act, with regard to the required open space.
This concludes Part V., and it will be observed that the provisions as to
open space about buildings apply solely to domestic buildings. Now domestic
buildings do not include public buildings, nor buildings of the warehouse class ;
these are defined in section 5, sub-sections (27) and (28).
27. The expression "public building" means a building used, or constructed,
or adapted to be used, as a church, chapel, or other place of public worship;
or as a school, college, or place of instruction (not merely a dwelling-house
so used); or as a hospital, workhouse, public theatre, public hall, public
concert-room, public ball-room, public lecture-room, public library, or public
exhibition-room; or as a public place of assembly; or used, or constructed,