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Glossary

Lintel: Horizontal beam or stone bridging an opening.
Loft: A upper room or floor, especially within a roof space; also, a gallery in a church.
Loggia: (Italian): A gallery or room with regular openings along one main side, sometimes free-standing.
Long-and-short work: Stones (quoins) at the angle or corner of a building placed with the long side alternately upright and horizontal, especially in Anglo-Saxon structures.
Longhouse: House and byre in the same range with internal access between them.
Loophole: An unglazed slit window. Compare arrow loop.
Louis XIV, Louis XV, Louis XVI: Barnard Castle
County Durham
The prevailing styles of French architecture for most of the 17th and 18th centuries (Louis XIV, king 1643-1715, Louis XV, 1715-74, Louis XVI, 1774-92). In British terminology, commonly used for the revival of the styles in the 19th and 20th centuries, especially for interiors.
Louvre: Roof opening, often protected by a raised timber structure, to allow the smoke from a central hearth to escape; also one of a series of horizontal boards or slats set at angle to prevent rain entering an opening.
Lowside window: A side window set lower than the others in the chancel of a church, usually towards its west end.
Lucam: Projecting housing for a hoist pulley on an upper storey of warehouses, mills, etc., for raising goods to the loading doors.