Door
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DOOR (corresponding to the Gr. Obpa, Lat. fores or valvae; the English word, with other forms common in allied languages, comes from the same Indo-European stem as the Gr. Obpa and Lat. fores), in architecture, ...
Door Surround
A continuous concrete, wooden, brick, metal or stone "border" around a door that is designed to complement the style and enhance the style of the building.
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Dutch Door - Originating in the Netherlands during the early 1600s, this unique design features top and bottom halves that operate independently.
A door topped with a rounded arch and flanked by vertical rectangular areas of fixed glass on each side that are narrower than and usually not as high as the the door; suggestive of a Palladian window
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Doors are made for interior or exterior use and are either flush or paneled. They may either be solid of honeycombed construction.
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Door furniture - Any functional or decorative fitting for a door, including the hinges, handle, lock and fingerplate.
Doric - An order (q.v.) of Classical architecture. It is the plainest order; the capital is a disc.
Dutch Door A door divided horizontally in half; the halves may be opened together or individually. E
Eave The projecting lower edge of a roof.
Entablature The area above an entryway in which the transom is contained.
FRENCH DOOR or WINDOW A tall casement window that reaches to the floor and opens like a door. It is a popular, modern, feature that brings more light into a home.
Bi-fold door - A compact cupboard door with two pairs of folding leaves ...
Door stop
- projecting strip on the door frame against which the door closes.
Door beam: A beam for securing the doors of a fortification. The beam usually fitted into sockets on either side of the entrance and into brackets on the door itself.
CAT DOOR
(Sp. gatera ) A small opening cut into a door to accomodate the comings and goings of resident cats. The first cats were brought to California in 1776 by the Anza expedition at the specific request of the missionaries "who urgently asked...
Patio door in which a vent panel moves horizontally on a track system past a fixed panel
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Pocket door - A door which slides open into cavities within walls, seeming to disappear when open.
Porch - An open or enclosed gallery or room on the outside of a building.
centre door accented by rectangular transom and sidelights
popular designs include temple-fronted buildings ...
The main door for each house has a wooden latch attached to a cord enabling the door to be opened from the apartments above. The ground floors of the houses are either storerooms or shops whilst the first-floor rooms may be used for animal stalls.
The west door of Notre Dame Cathedral, Paris, France is a fine example of Early Gothic architecture (begun 1160). The period saw the introduction of Islamic influence in Christian church architecture, such as the ogival (pointed) arch.
The front door of a Roman house was the public entrance for people who had business dealings with the household. It opened into a very large rectangular room-the atrium-that had a well, stream, or small pool just inside the entrance.
The center door is taller and wider than the other two.
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Venetian door - An adaptation of the serliana to a doorway, i.e. with the central opening arched and flanked by tall narrow square-topped windows.
Veranda - An open gallery or balcony with a roof supported by light, usually metal, supports.
pier-and-door partition (12)
pillar (12) -- a detached vertical structure of stone or wood slender or narrow in proportion to its height, used as a vertical support of a superstructure (Oxford Dict.)
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An entrance door for excluding drafts from an interior of a building. A revolving door typically consists of three or four doors that hang on a cente...
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84: The door opening onto the unknowable and onto glory was Jesus:; he said it himself.
a window or door opening with angled sides in the thickness of a wall that allow more light to enter than is possible with straight sides
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point from which an arch or vault is struck from a wall face ...
Every exterior door, or door to an uninsulated room such as an attic, must be weatherstripped as required by code enforcement in various states of U.S. Doors can usually be divided into private homes and commercial properties.
French sliding door: A sliding door which has wider panel members around the glass, giving the appearance of a French hinged door.
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The sides of a door or window frame.
Lean-to
The lean-to is one of the simplest roofs formed by a single sloping plane.
A porch at the door of a building for shelter, wide enough to allow access for a car.
Portico
A roofed entrance porch, often with columns.
A paneled front door was most often centered, accented by decorative pilasters and crowned with a pedimented entablature. A transom light could be found either above the door or within the top of the door.
Portal: The door or entrance of a cathedral (fig.3).
Fig.5: Pillars (A) with capitals (B) and quatri-partite vaulting (D) containing keystones (C) of the ambulatory of the Cathedral of St-Gervais and St-Protais at Soissons (photo: Athena ...
Bar Hole: Horizontal hole for timber bar used as a door-bolt. Barrel Vault: Cylindrical roof; The simplest form of a vault, consisting of a continuous surface of semicircular or pointed sections.
architrave a term generally used for the molding around a door or window, and specifically used for the lowest level of the entablature, directly above the capital of a column.
Bar hole - horizontal hole for timber bar used as a door-bolt.
Barmkin - the small walled yard attached to a pele tower (generally Scottish).
Barracks - building or group of buildings used to accommodate soldiers.
Identifying features include thick masonry construction, with multiple materials; heavy, round-arched windows, asymmetrical massing, and deeply recessed or "cavernous" porches and door/window openings.
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The main entrance to the house was facing the street, and consisting of a double-door. On passing through the door you would walk through a short passageway and enter into the atrium. The atrium is the most important part in the house.
Use of stone or brick for accent on walls, often by the front door
Low pitched hip or gable roof with wide overhang
Horizontal, rambling layout: long, narrow, and low to the ground
Attached garages, with the garage often an exterior focal point ...
Colonial - The defining characteristics of colonial architecture are its square, symmetrical shape, central door, and straight lines of windows on the first and second floor.
Casement A window hinged on one of its vertical sides to open inwards or outwards like a door Cavity-wall (also called Cavity Brick) A brick wall laid in 2 close rows which are connected by ties Chair-rail (often called Dado-rail) A ...
Coming up the drive, you will notice a large front porch or wraparound porch with the door centered, second-floor dormer windows and a gable roof that often runs parallel to the main road.
a window or door.OverdoorPainting or relief above an internal door. Also called a sopraporta.OvermantelAn ornamented or painted feature above a fireplace.Overshot water wheelOne with water fed on to the wheel over the top.
The stylistic focus is on the main entry--a panelled door often framed by half or three-quarter length sidelights and thin pilasters or columns.
A secondary door.
Potsherd or Potshard
A fragment of broken pottery that has been discarded by an earlier civilisation. It is likely to have settled into earth firmly stratified over time and thus provide an archaeological chronology to a site.
term used to describe houses in Ontario from about 1830 to about 1870 if they are built with one-and-a-half storeys and have a gable roof featuring a gable over a dormer window; the later often with a round arch; there is typically a central door ...
Identify the style by its entry, full-height, or full-building width porches, entryway columns sized in scale to the porch type, and a front door surrounded by narrow rectangular windows. Roofs are generally gabled or hipped.
cornice - the upper element of an entablature, molded and projecting, or any continuous molded and projecting cap to a wall or window or door opening. (p. 16 - along the roof top and around the gable ends making the gables into pediments, p.
It has paired chimneys, five windows in front, the crown over the front door and flattened columns on each side of the door. Notice the fancy crown over the door it has a small balcony on top of the columns.
Cavity tray A moisture barrier inserted above a window or door opening to deflect moisture that transfers across the outer leaf of brickwork back to the outer face rather than letting it cross the cavity at lintel level causing dampness ...
jamb - the stones forming the side of a door or window.
jamb figures - located on either side of the main portal door; the first carved figures a visitor meets on a visit to a Gothic cathedral.
Casing - Boards fixed in door openings to hide the wall edges and support the door.
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Cavity insulation - Ideally fitted when cavity walls are built with material usually consisting of sheets of expanded polystyrene.
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SEGMENTAL ARCH A slightly rounded arch over a window or door.
SEMI-ELLIPTICAL ARCH A elongated round arch over a window or door.
SILL The flat horizontal bottom piece of a window or door, often of wood, but sometimes of stone.
embrasure - a window or door with slanting sides inward
entablature - the part of building above the columns, contains the frieze and cornice
knee brace (strut) - a diagonal support across the angle formed by two perpendicular members.
Transom: Small window located above a door or another window.
Transom joint: Horizontal member separating a door from a window panel above the door, or separating one window above another.
Oubliette: a dungeon reached by a trap door
Palisade: a sturdy wooden fence built to enclose a site until a permanent stone wall could be constructed
Parapet: protective wall at the top of a fortification, around the outer side of the wall-walk ...
Lintel A beam over a door or window opening carrying the load of the wall above. May be timber, brick, stone, concrete or steel depending on the age of the building. Often lintels can be partially or completely hidden from view.
transom - a light or window over a door or entryway.
triglyph - the characteristic ornament of the Doric frieze, consisting of slightly rasied blocks of three vertical bands separated by V-shaped grooves.
TRANSOM: the horizontal framing member between a door and a window above; also refers to the window above a door. (IMAGE)
TRUNCATED: cut off or cut short, usually in reference to a roof. (IMAGE) ...
Stoop - The steps which lead to the front door.
Stucco - A coating for exterior walls made from Portland cement, lime, sand, and water.
Surround - The ornamental frame of a door or window.
sash - the moveable framework holding the glass in a window or door
sill - the horizontal water-shedding element at the bottom of a window or door frame
siding - the exterior wall covering of a structure ...
Lintel: In masonry construction, a lintel is a long, rectangular stone block which spans a door or window opening to support the weight of the structure above. Stone lintels are normally visible from the exterior.
 See also: Architecture, House, Floor, Frame, Ground
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