Thursday, May 2, 2013

Housing Styles: Roofing and Characteristics

Bay Window

A set of two or more windows that move out from the wall

Casement Window

A window that opens by swinging inward or outward much like a door.

Clapboard

Boards overlapped to cover outer walls.

Dormer


A setting of vertical window in the roof called a gable dormer mostly found in upstairs rooms.

Eaves

The portion of a roof that project beyond the wall.

Fanlight

A semicircular or arched window above a door.

Palladian Window

A three part window featuring a large arched center and flanking rectangular sides.

Pediment

 Triangular crown used over doors, windows, or porches.

Portico

A large porch usually with a pedimented roof supported by plliars.

Rafter

A roof beam sloping from the ridge to the wall.  Rafters are visible in the attic.

Sidelights

Windows on either side of the door.

Turret

A small tower normally on the corner of the building.

Gable Roof

 
 
Gable roofs slope downward from a central ridge.
 

Gambrel Roof

Barn style (each side of which has a shallower slope above a steeper one.)

Hip Roof

Hipped roofs have sloping ends and sides.

 

Saltbox Roof

Two stories in front and one in back having a pitched roof with unequal sides, being short and high in front with long and low in back.

Mansard Roof

A four sides roof having a double slope on all sides with lower slope much steeper than the upper.

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