# Rebuilding of London Act 1666, Section VIII: Contents of Second Sorts of Houses.


Thickness of Party Walls.; Scantlings.
And bee it further enacted That the Houses of the second sort of building fronting Streets and Lanes of note and the River of Thames shall consist of three Stories high beside Cellars and Garrets as aforesaid, that the Cellars thereof be six foote and an halfe high (if the springs of water hinder not) that the first Story containe full tenn foote in height from the Floore to the Sieling the second full ten foote, the third nine foote, That all the said Walls in front and reere as high as the first Story be of the full thicknesse of the length of two Bricks and an halfe, and from thence upwards to the Garret Floore of the thicknes of one bricke and an halfe, and that the thicknes of the Garret walls on the backe part be left to the discretion of the builder soe that the same be not lesse then the length of one Bricke, and alsoe that the thicknes of the Partie walls betweene every House of this second and larger sort of building be two Bricke lengths as high as the first Story, and thence upwards to the Garrets of the thicknes of one Bricke and halfe, the Scantlings of Timber and Stone to be as in the said Table are prescribed,

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Source: https://www.legislation.gov.uk/aep/Cha2/18-19/8/section/VIII (the official version)
Page: https://openlegislation.uk/rebuilding-of-london-act-1666/section-VIII
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