Gable Roof-Most common residential roof. 2 sloping sides meet to form a ridge. |
Dutch Hip Roof-A combination of both hip and gable roof.
Saltbox-a building with a long, pitched roof that slopes down to the back, generally a wooden frame house. A saltbox has just one story in the back and two stories in the front.
Mansard-Same as gambrel but lower and upper levels are on all four sides.

Bay Window-a window space projecting outward from the main walls of a building and forming a bay in a room.

Casement Window- a window that is attached to its frame by one or more hidges. Casement windows are hinged at the side.

Clapboard- is the cladding or ‘siding’ of a house consisting of long thin wooden boards that overlap one another horizontally on the outside of the wall.

Dormer- is a structural element of a building that protrudes from the plane of a sloping roof surface. Dormers are used, either in original construction or as later additions, to create usable space in the roof of a building by adding headroom and usually also by enabling addition of windows

Eaves- is the edge of a roof. They normally project beyond the side of the building so they can carry rain water away.

Fanlight-is a window, semicircular or semi-elliptical in shape, with glazingbars or tracery sets radiating out like an open fan. It is placed over another window or a doorway.

Palladian Window- It consists of a central light with semicircular arch over, carried on an impost consisting of a small entablature, under which, and enclosing two other lights, one on each side, are pilasters.

Pediment-element consisting of the triangular section found above the horizontal structure typically supported by columns.

Portico-is a porch leading to the entrance of a building, or extended as a colonade, with a roof structure over a walkway, supported bycolumns or enclosed by walls.

Rafter- is one of a series of sloped beams that extend from the ridge or hip to the wall plate, downslope perimeter or eave, and that are designed to support the roof deck and its associated loads

Sidelights-is a window, usually with a vertical emphasis, that flanks a door. Sidelights are narrow, usually stationary and found immediately adjacent doorways.

Turret-is a small tower that projects vertically from the wall of a building such as a midevil castles.
Bay Window-a window space projecting outward from the main walls of a building and forming a bay in a room.
Casement Window- a window that is attached to its frame by one or more hidges. Casement windows are hinged at the side.
Clapboard- is the cladding or ‘siding’ of a house consisting of long thin wooden boards that overlap one another horizontally on the outside of the wall.
Dormer- is a structural element of a building that protrudes from the plane of a sloping roof surface. Dormers are used, either in original construction or as later additions, to create usable space in the roof of a building by adding headroom and usually also by enabling addition of windows
Eaves- is the edge of a roof. They normally project beyond the side of the building so they can carry rain water away.
Fanlight-is a window, semicircular or semi-elliptical in shape, with glazingbars or tracery sets radiating out like an open fan. It is placed over another window or a doorway.
Palladian Window- It consists of a central light with semicircular arch over, carried on an impost consisting of a small entablature, under which, and enclosing two other lights, one on each side, are pilasters.
Pediment-element consisting of the triangular section found above the horizontal structure typically supported by columns.
Portico-is a porch leading to the entrance of a building, or extended as a colonade, with a roof structure over a walkway, supported bycolumns or enclosed by walls.
Rafter- is one of a series of sloped beams that extend from the ridge or hip to the wall plate, downslope perimeter or eave, and that are designed to support the roof deck and its associated loads
Sidelights-is a window, usually with a vertical emphasis, that flanks a door. Sidelights are narrow, usually stationary and found immediately adjacent doorways.

Turret-is a small tower that projects vertically from the wall of a building such as a midevil castles.


