Rebuilding of London Act 1666

VII. The Contents of least sort of Houses.

Thickness of Party Walls.; Scantlings.

And bee it further enacted that the said Houses of the first and least sort of Building fronting By streetes or Lanes as aforesaid shall be of two Stories high besides Cellers and Garrets, That the Cellars thereof be six foote and a halfe high if the springs of water hinder not, that the first Story be nine foote high from the Floore to the Cieling, and the second Story nine foote high from the Floore to the Cieling, that all Walls in front and reere as high as the first Story be of the full thicknes of the length of two Bricks and thence upwards to the Garrets of the thicknes of one Bricke and an halfe, and that the thicknes of the Garrat 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 Party walls betweene these Houses of this first and lesser sort of building be one Bricke and an halfe as high as the said Garrets and that the thicknes of the Partie Wall in the Garrets be of the thickenes of one Bricke in length at the least, and that the Scantlings of Timber and Stone to be used about the building thereof be as in the said Table are sett downe and prescribed.