Cricket

A cricket is a ridge structure designed to divert water on a roof. Generally found on the high side of a chimney or the transition from one roof area to another. The cricket is normally the same pitch as the rest of the roof, but not always.

Cricket
A Cricket is a small roof structure of single or double slope placed at the junction of larger surfaces that meet at an angle for the purpose of diverting drainage.
Cripple ...

(Cricket) = sightscreen
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(= hide) → verdecken; (= protect) → abschirmen; (fig) → schützen (→ from vor +dat), → abschirmen (from gegen); to screen the windows (with screen) → ...

Pavillion - An ornamental building, lightly constructed, often used as a pleasure-house or summerhouse in a garden, or attached to a cricket or other sports ground; also a projecting subdivision of some larger building, ...

- the basic measuring tool for land surveying until the change to metrication was the surveyors chain or "Gunter's chain" after Edmund Gunter (1581-1626). 66 feet or 22 yards it is the length of a cricket pitch.

1891: University of Pennsylvania Library (now the Anne and Jerome Fisher Fine Arts Library), Philadelphia
1892: New Castle Library Society building, New Castle, Delaware
1896-97: Merion Cricket Club, Haverford, PA ...

See also: Architecture, Pitch, Member, Cement, House