Dormer Window -- A window that projects from a roof.
Double Hung Window -- A window with two sashes, one sliding vertically over the other.
Eaves -- The edge of a roof that projects beyond the face of a wall.
Dormer window: A space which projects from the roof of a house, usually including one or more windows.
Double-hung window: A window with two vertically moving sashes, each closing a different part of the window.
dormer window
A window placed vertically in a sloping roof that has a tiny roof of its own. Most often seen in second-floor bedrooms.
dosseret, or impost block ...
Dormer Window A window projecting from a roof slope.
Double Hung Sash A window in which the opening lights slide vertically within a cased frame, counter balanced by weights supported on sash cords which pass over pulleys in the frame.
dormer window - an upright window lighting the space in a roof. When it is in the same plane as the wall, it is called a wall dormer; when it rises from the slope of the roof, a roof dormer.
Dormer window
Usually small, these windows are found in roofs lighting attic rooms. They emerge out of the sloping angles of the roof, and usually have their own small gable.
A dormer window.
[French, from Old French, alteration (influenced by luiserne, light) of Old Provençal lucana, possibly of Germanic origin .]
lucarne [luːˈkûːn] ...
A small dormer window in a roof or spire
See also: Windows
Found in Gothic Revival,Richardsonian Romanesque styles ...
Mansard roof
Dormer windows project like eyebrows from roof
Rounded cornices at top and base of roof
Brackets beneath the eaves, balconies, and bay windows ...
shed dormer A dormer window covered by a single roof slope without a gable.
shingle A unit composed of wood, cement, asphalt compound, slate, tile or the like, employed in an overlapping series to cover roofs and walls.
Dormer Cheek - the vertical side of a dormer window.
Downpipe - vertical pipe which brings rainwater to ground level from roof gutters or waste water from hoppers.
square shape often repeated in a horizontal line DOME: a vault of even curvature on a circular base which can be segmental, semicircular, pointed, or bulbous DORIC ORDER: the earliest of the Greek orders also adapted by the Romans DORMER WINDOW: a ...
Dormer or Dormer window - window placed vertically in sloping roof.
Double-splayed - embrasure whose smallest aperture is in the middle of the wall.
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.
'ONTARIO COTTAGE' A modern 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; ...
The crowning features of their exteriors are those magnified versions of dormer windows, the lucarnes.
A dormer window therefore in the proper sense of the word, is a window built off the wallhead, but the term is used to describe any window projecting from the pitch of a roof.
The term lucarne is used in France to mean "dormer window". They take many different forms which distinguishes the form of small roof above the window.
Dormer windows, sometimes a square (not round) tower, decorative brackets, molded cornice, similar to Italianate detail on windows, doors; Floor plan often includes pavilions: outward projection of a building's center or side.
Most buildings in the style are irregular in form, with hip, gable, or clipped gable (jerkinhead) roofs, and projecting bay windows, towers, and dormer windows.
Separate dormer windows or a shed dormer with a series of windows were incorporated into the gambrel roof. Some also included a rear cross gambrel design. The main roof line may feature a full-width porch or and added porch with a separate roof.
Lucarne - A small opening in an attic or a spire. Also called A dormer window.
Lunette - A semicircular opening or tympanum. The term can also be applied to any flat, semicircular surface ...
Second Empire
This Victorian style features mansard roofs with dormer windows.
Federal
This style arose amid a renewed interest in Greek and Roman culture.
Verge The edge of the roof, especially over a gable, or around a dormer window or skylight.
Wall Plate Timber normally fixed on top of a wall to receive floor joists or roof rafters.
mansard roof - A roof having two slopes on all sides, the lower is much steeper than the upper. Often includes dormer windows.
modillions - Ornamental blocks or brackets used to support the corona in the Corinthian orders ...
STORIES The number of stories a building reflects its height by counting the stacked floors. If a building has dormer windows inset into the roof, that top section of the building is called a 1/2 story.
This Second Empire mansion is in the midst of being remodeled. It has a tall tower between two projecting bays. Both tower and bays have Mansard roofs with high round-headed dormer windows.
The term "gingerbread" often refers to this type of external architectural decoration. (p. 34, p. 28 - above dormer windows, second story porch, above sunburst ornamented window and above arched window).
Mansard Roof - A type of curb roof in which the pitch of the upper portion of a sloping side is slight and that of the lower portion steep. The lower portion is usually interrupted by dormer windows.
The style is identified with steeply pitched roofs, half-timbering often infilled with herringbone brickwork, tall mullioned windows, high chimneys, jettied (overhanging) first floors above pillared porches, dormer windows supported by consoles, ...
 See also: Dormer, Floor, Architecture, Gable, Frame
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