I'm looking for info / probably a book on stately home construction.
Plenty of info around on walls / staircases etc. I'm interested in
floor construction with large spans, stone upper storey floors, use of
iron to increase spans, etc.
I cannot find any info about this on the internet, but it has always
intrigued me.
One example was recently on TV where the downstairs hall was called
something like "the columned room". All those columns were obviously
holding the vastly heavy marble floored ballroom above it.
Simon.

sm_jamieson wrote:
I'm looking for info / probably a book on stately home construction.
Plenty of info around on walls / staircases etc. I'm interested in
floor construction with large spans, stone upper storey floors, use of
iron to increase spans, etc.
I cannot find any info about this on the internet, but it has always
intrigued me.
One example was recently on TV where the downstairs hall was called
something like "the columned room". All those columns were obviously
holding the vastly heavy marble floored ballroom above it.
Simon.
Start here
http://www.bookrags.com/wiki/Structu...developm ents