Clapboard - Overlapping horizontal boards protecting the outside of the house.
Classical Architecture - Form of style devised by the Greeks and Romans and revived during the Renaissance.
Clapboard: Clapboards are thin, narrow boards of tapering cross-section applied horizontally as siding on wood-frame houses. Each clapboard overlaps the one below, so that no joints are exposed to the weather.
ClapboardingThe North American term for weatherboarding, i.e. wall cladding of overlapping horizontal boards.Clapper bridgeA bridge with one long stone forming the roadway.
CLAPBOARD A narrow wooden board, thinner at one edge than the other, applied horizontally to the exterior walls of buildings to form a weather-tight wall surface.
Clapboard
A wood siding commonly used as an exterior covering on a timber-frame structure, laid horizontally and overlapped, with the thick edge of each board overlapping the thin edge of the board below it.
Coffered Ceiling ...
Clapboard Tapered horizontal boards used as siding, thickest on their bottom edge; each overlaps the one below.
Column A slender, upright structure, usually a supporting member in a building.
Clapboard- a house covering made of overlapping boards.
Fascia- a vertical board nailed onto the ends of the rafters.
Shutters-a hinged cover or screen for a window, usually fitted with louvers.
Clapboard - horizontal or vertical siding that overlaps.
Circulation - describes the flow of people throughout a building.
clapboard - a long, narrow board with one edge thicker than the other, overlapped to cover the outer walls of frame structures; also known as weatherboard.
classical - of, or pertaining to, the architecture of ancient Greece and Rome.
4. Wood Clapboard Siding
Cape Cod house with traditional wood clapboard siding. Photo (c) Jackie Craven ...
clapboard Wood siding composed of horizontal, overlapping boards, the lower edges of which are usually thicker than the upper.
colonnade A row of regularly spaced columns supporting an entablature.
clapboard (weatherboard) - a house siding of long, narrow boards with one edge thicker than the other, overlapped to cover the outer walls of frame structures
column - upright pillar serving as a support or ornament for a building
Classical Orders: ...
CLAPBOARDthin wood plank siding applied horizontally, one overlapping the next
COLONNADEa row of columns usually supporting the base of the roof structure ...
narrow clapboard,
Third Ward
Here are other versions of this style:
This is good example of a Queen Anne house. It has several porches and gabled roofs for decoration. It also shows the elaborate corbelling on the large chimneys.
Walls: clapboard
Walls: Flemish (red) brick
Captain's walk
Windows:
bay window
symmetrically arrayed windows in the facade, often, adjacent pairs of windows (or three adjacent windows) treated as single architectural unit
doube-hung ...
Symmetrical clapboard or brick exterior with little or no ornamentation
Usually three-story design, commonly box-shaped two or more rooms deep, sometimes modified with projecting wings
Low pitched gabled roof or flat roof with a balustrade ...
Weatherboarding / Clapboard / Weather-slating / Weather-tiling
- form of wall cladding composed of overlapping horizontal boards on a timber framework.
Clapboard is weatherboarding with a feather edge.
Single-floor dwellings, sheathed in stucco or board and batten, shingles, clapboard, wood, or a combination of these
Use of stone or brick for accent on walls, often by the front door
Low pitched hip or gable roof with wide overhang ...
These were replaced by solid stone, brick or clapboard buildings as soon as possible. The style was cumulative of architectural fashion in Britain during the reign of the first three King Georges of England (1750 - 1820).
e.g. North American farm house, often of CLAPBOARD, without any or with only a few superficial classical feature;
or in England medieval BARNS
or timber-framed houses of which the Wealden House was notable type.
A variety of building materials are commonly used for wall treatment, including wooden shingles or clapboards, stucco, and embedded cobblestones.
The exteriors vary from brick, wide clapboard siding and sometime stucco.
Usually the garages on Cape cod style homes are detached and positioned towards the rear of the home.
These homes often had fireplaces with masonry chimneys.
Brick and clapboard are the most common building materials. Other details: rows of casement windows; one-story porches with massive square supports; and stylized floral and circular geometric terra-cotta or masonry ornamentation around doors, ...
Georgian buildings were also constructed of wood with clapboards; even columns were made of timber, framed up and turned on an over-sized lathe.
 See also: House, Architecture, Brick, Classical, Chimney
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