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2. Awning - Wikipedia

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   Rigid shop awnings. Commonly used to shade a window, with a roller tube at the top, spring-loaded side arms, and a motor, crank or tape-pull operator. Awnings with sides are commonly known as traditional style awnings as they have been used for many years dating back to the early 19th century using cotton canvas fabric.

3. List of roof shapes - Wikipedia

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   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.

4. Eaves - Wikipedia

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   Eaves overhang, shown here with a bracket system of modillions. The eaves are the edges of the roof which overhang the face of a wall and, normally, project beyond the side of a building. The eaves form an overhang to throw water clear of the walls and may be highly decorated as part of an architectural style, such as the Chinese dougong ...

5. Fascia (architecture) - Wikipedia

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   The horizontal "fascia board" which caps the end of rafters outside a building may be used to hold the rain gutter. The finished surface below the fascia and rafters is called the soffit or eave . In classical architecture , the fascia is the plain, wide band (or bands) that make up the architrave section of the entablature , directly above the ...

6. Overhang (architecture) - Wikipedia

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   Overhangs on two sides of Pennsylvania Dutch barns protect doors, windows, and other lower-level structures. Overhangs on all four sides of barns and larger, older farmhouses are common in Swiss architecture. An overhanging eave is the edge of a roof, protruding outwards from the side of the building, generally to provide weather protection.

7. Glossary of architecture - Wikipedia

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   A building element sometimes used in the same sense as a soffit, but more correctly applied to the soffit of the corona in a cornice. [75] Plate girder A steel girder formed from a vertical center web of steel plate with steel angles forming the top and bottom flanges welded, bolted or riveted to the web.

8. Listed buildings in Ludlow (southern area) - Wikipedia

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   A shop with living accommodation, it is timber framed with plaster infill, and has a hipped slate roof. There are three storeys and a cellar, and two bays. In the ground floor is a shop front under a deep overhang on cast iron columns. In the middle storey is a canted oriel window with a coved underhang, and in the top floor are two sash windows.

9. Dingbat (building) - Wikipedia

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   A dingbat apartment building in Southern California (Santa Monica) A dingbat is a type of apartment building that flourished in the Sun Belt region of the United States in the 1950s and 1960s, a vernacular variation of shoebox style "stucco boxes". Dingbats are boxy, two or three-story apartment houses with overhangs sheltering street-front ...