sluice gate truss

[hamishmc]

I have been looking at a property with the advertisement heading  "Sluice gate Truss", when I enquired what this meant, I was told not to worry and it is just something lost in translation.

Would this be correct? Or can anyone confirm what this means.

Thanks

Hamish

[RogerW]

It's a mis-translation of 'longère', a long, low farmhouse originally with a semi-detached barn and hay loft in the roof. Anyone over 5' 6" tall standing on the ground floor has to be careful to position their head between the beams. Upstairs the ceilings are lower.

It joins 'hair paté' and 'heart attack flats' ('résidence coup-de-coeur') as an excellent illustration of the touching French belief that a bonne note in l'anglais thirty years ago and a battered Larousse qualifies you as a translator.

Roger.

[hamishmc]

Thanks Roger - just worrying unduly

regards

hamish