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A shed dormer can provide head room over a larger area than a gabled dormer, but as its roof pitch is shallower than the main roof, it may require a different roof covering. Wall dormer As opposed to the dormer being set part way up the slope of the roof, this is a dormer whose face is coplanar with (shares the horizontal position of) the face ...
An elaborate front porch is matched in decorative detail by a porte-cochere on the side of the house, where a semicircular drive provides access from Fairmont Avenue. The brick chimneys that project from the roof have panelled sides and corbelled tops. [2] The house was built about 1875 and is an excellent representation of Stick style ...
Image set Shed with conic dormer; Technical drawings of a house with a shed roof and a conic dormer. The intersection of the cone with the plane of the dormer window in an ellipse. That with the roof is a hyperbola.
The main house is a large 2 + 1 ⁄ 2-story brick structure, with a cruciform plan. It has a hipped roof with gabled sections projecting to the sides, and dormers on the front and rear roof faces. A porte-cochere projects from the left side, and a circular three-story turret with conical roof projects from the left front corner.
Bell-cast (sprocketed, flared): A roof with the shallow slope below the steeper slope at the eaves. Compare with bell roof. East Asian hip-and-gable roof; Mokoshi: A Japanese decorative pent roof; Pavilion roof : A low-pitched roof hipped equally on all sides and centered over a square or regular polygonal floor plan. [10]
This type of conversion is constructed by raising roof's sloping side to an almost vertical side. It is similar to the flat dormer since it has a flat roof, although the windows are housed in a smaller dormer. The mansard loft extension is a more appealing option to the dormer conversion as it gives the house a better look.
Camden Malthouse (left) and Camden Mill (1880) beyond, Bath [1] In general architecture a lucarne is a dormer window.The term is borrowed from French: lucarne, which refers to a dormer window, usually one set into the middle of a roof although it can also apply to a façade lucarne, where the gable of the lucarne is aligned with the face of the wall.
Above and set back from the porch roof extension is a large second-floor dormer with a hip roof which caps the west façade. [1] The south elevation is dominated by a side porch covered by an open lattice beam pergola which runs the entire length of the building. The front of the side porch is bordered by a lava stone wall that matches the ...