Cottage With Columns
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Question: I'm wondering what type house my house would be considered. Built in 1920, the house is somewhat reminiscent of a bungalow." ~ Karnye2004 ...
Cottage/Storybook
Sometimes considered a sub-category under Tudor Revival, the cottage style borrows heavily from English country cottages, the Arts and Crafts movement, and the medieval period.
Cottage Double-Hung A double-hung window in which the upper sash is shorter than the lower sash.
Condensation Moisture that forms on a surface when it is colder than the dew point.
COTTAGE see ONTARIO COTTAGE
COURSE A continuous horizontal layer of brick, stone, etc., in a building.
COVE A large concave moulding.
cottage orné: a rustic cottage, often thatched, originating in the Picturesque movement of the 18th century.
cruciform: cross-shaped in plan.
Cottage Furniture:
A style of casual furniture characterized by being painted and/or decorated. Cottage pieces often feature turned legs and very simple lines.
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Regency Cottages in Ontario
As fitting the era, Regency Cottages are usually situated in romantic or dramatic settings.
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Other examples:
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Cottage Orne
- a result of the picturesque movement of the late 18th, early 19th century, usually refers to smallish houses built in a somewhat artificial rustic manner. Characterised by thatch much use of timber features etc.
The Cottage home is typically a smaller design with picturesque details and informal but romantic styling. Consider images of a cozy and inviting storybook home.
"The English cottage style, or what we have denominated Rural Gothic, contains within itself all the most striking and peculiar elements of the beautiful and picturesque in its exterior, ...
Cottage - A space permanently open to the sky enclosed fully or partially by buildings and may be at ground level or any other level within or adjacent to the building.
These picturesque country cottages are distinguished by pointed arched windows which are combined with towers, steep gable roofs, lacy bargeboard, verandas, and bay and oriel windows.
From the 1880s onwards Tudorbethan concentrated more on the simple but quaintly picturesque Elizabethan cottage, rather than the brick and battlemented splendours of Hampton Court or Compton Wynyates.
With the desire for quick construction and the affordable availability of lumber in the United States, wooden cottages and villas in the Gothic Revival style became popular. Sometimes Gothic Revival Cottages are referred to as Carpenter Gothic.
What differentiates a cottage from a house? For most of us the term “Cottage' means a small and pretty little home. Originally a cottage meant a house with a core of 4 rooms. A house had a core of more than 4 rooms.
the Cottage Ornč), they were generally scorned until the mid to late 19th century, ...
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1. To provide living quarters for; lodge: The cottage housed ten students.
2. To shelter, keep, or store in or as if in a house: a library housing rare books.
3. To contain; harbor.
The emphasis was on the simple, rustic and the less impressive aspects of Tudor architecture, imitating in this way medieval cottages or country houses.
HIP ROOF: locally known as a COTTAGE ROOF; a roof with four pitched sides, the line where two slopes of a roof meet is called a hip. (IMAGE) ...
CRUCK A pair of timbers that act as the principal members for a roof. Represented in Ashfield at Cruck Cottage in Skegby.
CRYPT A vaulted underground room beneath a church which may be used either as a burial place or for storage.
Barge Board A stylized rafter set out a little from the clapboards of a gable, used es
pecially on Gothic Revival cottages.
But-and-ben(Scots, lit. outer and inner rooms): Two-room cottage.Butt-jointA joint in which the stones or bricks do not overlap.
In architecture they looked at the unselfconscious vernacular tradition of barns, mills, and cottages as an inspiration and at the aesthetics of the medieval period.
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