Word Finder - frontage

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The front part of a property or building that faces the street.

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The land between a property and the street.

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The length of a property along a street.

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Property or territory adjacent to a body of water.

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The front part generally.

This dockyard covers an area of 516 acres, and has a river frontage of over 3 m.

Extending along the front of the town is the boulevard de la Republique, a fine road built by Sir Morton Peto on a series of arches, with a frontage of 3700 ft., and bordered on one side by handsome buildings, whilst a wide promenade overlooking the harbour runs along the other.

There are remains of a Moorish fort on the hill commanding the town; and the north gateway - the Puerta del Colegio - is a fine lofty arch, surmounted by an emblematic statue and the city arms. The most prominent buildings are the episcopal palace (1733), with a frontage of a 600 ft.; the town house (1843), containing important archives; and the cathedral, a small Gothic structure built on the site of a former mosque in the 14th century, and enlarged and tastelessly restored in 1829.

The view of the three from the south, presenting a continuous river frontage of six miles, the river crowded with shipping and the densely packed houses surmounted by church towers - of which three are higher than the dome of St Paul's in London - is one of great magnificence.

The sea frontage of this area stretches for 12 m.

The city proper occupies two indented tongues of land, having a water frontage on Port Jackson, and extending from Rushcutter's Bay on the east to Blackwattle Bay on the west, a distance of 8 m., nearly two miles of which is occupied by the Domain and the botanical gardens.

The sea frontage extends about three miles; there is, however, no harbour, and steamers have to lie about a mile out, goods and passengers being landed in surf boats.

The Praya reclamation scheme provided for the extension of the land frontage of 250 ft.

A breakwater was therefore planned on the Monarch shoal, to double the available anchorage area and increase the frontage of deep-water wharves available in all weathers.

The plan was to cross the obstacle here and then to expand the front of attack to a frontage of some 9 m.

Corps were firing on this area, and as a frontage of only 9 yd.

For the better accommodation of the increasing commerce of the port of Boston, the commonwealth bought a considerable frontage upon the harbour lines and constructed a dock capable of receiving the largest vessels, and has supplemented the work of the United States government in deepening the approaches to the wharves.

The national palace, also on the Plaza Mayor, has a frontage of 675 ft.

The original plan seems to have been to construct these narrow streets to give access to the great business houses which, it was foreseen, would be built on the frontage of the main streets.

By far the finest of the buildings, however, is the famous university, which occupies the larger part of the southern frontage of the town.

The state ranks second to New York in the value of its manufactures, which increased from $155,044,910 in 1850 to $1,955,551,332 (factory products alone) in 1905, a growth which has been promoted by an abundance of fuel, by a good port on the Atlantic seaboard, by a network of eanals which in the early years was of much importance in connecting the port with the Mississippi river system, by its frontage on Lake Erie which makes the ores of the Lake Superior region easily accessible, and by a great railway system which has been built to meet the demands arising from the natural resources.

The customhouse and government offices present an imposing frontage to the sea, and the principal houses are of white coral stone three storeys high.

The town-hall is a handsome modern building with a Grecian frontage on two sides.

Of these, the Altstadt is closely built and has only a few fine streets and squares, while the Neustadt possesses numerous broad streets and a handsome frontage to the Rhine.

It is separated from Staten Island only by the narrow strip of water known as the Kill van Kull, and it has a total water frontage of about 10 m.

Great part of the river frontage is occupied with rice-mills, teak wharves and similar buildings.

The ashlar Recreation Hall occupies a central position in the grounds and features an Edwardian baroque gabled frontage to the south.

In 1964 it had been damaged to such an extent by death-watch beetle that everything behind the street frontage had to be pulled down.

With its own wide, sandy beach, it also has direct frontage onto a lake fed by freshwater springs.

Externally there is a fully glazed return frontage at ground floor level.

The inn was then rebuilt with a long curving frontage, with an entrance at either end.

Still no effort to retain the frontage or the Station House building.

The King's Head had an impressive Georgian frontage which almost certainly covered an early building.

The attack launched on a narrow frontage, followed an intense aerial bombardment by over 1000 bombers, many of which flew from England.

The Plan shows primary (or core) and secondary shopping frontage for the first time in the town center.

The scheme will open the power station's riverside frontage to local people for the first time in 130 years.

Of the building situated against the river frontage little can be deduced.

The proposed extension to the primary shopping frontage in The Square has bee proposed for adoption in the Local Plan.

The Phase 2 building will give the campus high street frontage.

The red brick frontage onto Bayley Lane formerly contained the house of the governor of the jail which stood on an adjacent site.

Below is the new glass frontage above the building in Cadogan Gardens.

The Castell Malgwyn is an extremely homely Georgian country house with river frontage and spacious gardens.

One of the most beautifully secluded Lakeside caravan estates offering exclusive lake frontage for 1km onto Windermere, set on a farm.

In the end, however, a far more imposing arrangement was adopted, with the new steeple on the Cheapside frontage.

Erection of the building commenced in1994 with the 1869 frontage being rebuilt by a specialist stonemason.

This did, however, spoil the original symmetry of the frontage.

The bar is made of American walnut, with a marble mosaic frontage.

It has a frontage on the river and bay 1 of 102 m., and a total area of 23.4 sq.

A 100 meter stretch of river frontage at this site is operated by W.G. Readman Limited who plan to further develop the facility.

Sapphire blue glazed bricks line the curved frontage of the main Lawrence Batley Stand, offset by yellow window details.

In all cases there must be suitable treatment of the frontage to maintain townscape quality.

Keep the original size and proportions of openings as unconsidered changes can destroy the design of a whole frontage.

In 1878, vagrant wards were added at each end of the front of the building 's frontage.

The lift from the main lobby offers a vertiginous view through the hotel 's glass frontage up to the 42nd floor.

Turn right, then turn right on East Frontage Road.