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It originally included a dog-trot, detached kitchen structure, wood plank front porch with ship balustrade railing, exposed railroad ties on its exterior walls and a wood shake shingle roof with two dormer windows. An indoor kitchen, bathroom and electricity were added which modernized the cottage.
The porch is supported by three cast-iron and metal Greek Ionic columns with molded clay doric capitals. [4] Poured concrete steps lead to a concrete sidewalk; an iron boot scrape is set in the bottom step. The north gable/pediment and adjacent dormer feature two windows, each in slate, as is the entire roof.
Dormer window of the Building of Préfecture de police de Paris (île de la Cité) Gable dormers at Hospices de Beaune in Beaune, France Pair of hip roof dormer windows on the Howard Memorial Hall, Letchworth. A dormer is a roofed structure, often containing a window, that projects vertically beyond the plane of a pitched roof. [1]
Dutch gable, gablet: A hybrid of hipped and gable with the gable (wall) at the top and hipped lower down; i.e. the opposite arrangement to the half-hipped roof. Overhanging eaves forming shelter around the building are a consequence where the gable wall is in line with the other walls of the buildings; i.e., unless the upper gable is recessed.
A design or figure commonly used in architectural ornaments and design patterns, including art nouveau. Syrian arch In American architecture, esp. Richardsonian Romanesque, an archway that begins at the ground, rather than being set upon a supporting pedestal. [C.f. Richardsonian Romanesque: Syrian arch] Systyle
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.
Other styles include Type B, a rectangular, gable roofed plan with closely spaced entrance doors; Type D, a one-story plan with a central chimney and steeper gable roof; Type E, an L-shaped structure with a shed porch on the front; and Type H, a 1 + 1 ⁄ 2-story single-family design with a gable roof and shed roof dormer.
A mansard roof on the Château de Dampierre, by Jules Hardouin-Mansart, great-nephew of François Mansart. A mansard or mansard roof (also called French roof or curb roof) is a multi-sided gambrel-style hip roof characterised by two slopes on each of its sides, with the lower slope at a steeper angle than the upper, and often punctured by dormer windows.