The treads, which are made from millstone grit, which is a particularly strong sandstone, are basically rectangular in section with carved soffits and a small rebate.
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Common interior applications include lobby walls, soffits, column facings, and interior walls of elevator cabs.
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Inside are visible the tranverse and axial beams plain chamfered except in the service end with joists lathed and plastered to soffits.
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The first-floor entry lobby, while reduced in size from its original configuration, retains its 16ft m ceiling, featuring a cast-plaster cornice, moldings, soffits, and modillions.
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A simple cornice adorns the soffits on the north and south eaves.
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The soffits of the panels have a smooth uniform finish as a result of casting them in polished steel molds.
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Further work was carried out in the 1960s to repair the underside soffits of all three arches.
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The bottoms of these tiers of windows, located at the second floor of the building, feature terra cotta soffits; the building's cornice is also terra cotta.
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The soffits feature mutules studded with guttae.
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He painted four large lunettes, four pendentives, and twelve scenes in the soffits of the arches, all in fresco, plus three large altarpieces in oil on copper.
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The soffits of the architrave, the ceilings of the portico and the wings of the temple were decorated with floral ornaments, octagon and diamond-shaped ornamented caissons.
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Skewback arches with cambered soffits to ground floor windows.
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Later extensions to sides and rear. 2 storeys with former attic. 3 bays of modern tripartite sashes with glazing bars beneath skewback arches with cambered soffits.
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The main facade has three entrances, each topped by a semicircular fanlight with reededsoffit.
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Presently screened and enclosed by a balustrade, the piazza has the original hipped roof with dentils on thesoffitof the eaves.
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