Dormers
Dormers are windows that jut out from the roof of a home, and have a roof of their own. The word comes from the Latin dormitorium meaning "sleeping room," because dormers often bring space and light to bedrooms.
Dormers-an opening in a sloping roof, the framing of which projects out to form a vertical wall suitable for windows or other openings.
Shed Dormers- a full-width dormer with a single roof sloping in one direction.
Gabled dormers with exposed rafter ends and braces
Art glass with medieval images
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DORMERSwindow set in a gable projecting from sloping roof. Frequently admits light into bedroom; the word "dormer" is derived from the French verb meaning "to sleep".
Dormers
eyebrow - roof windows that look like eyebrows. (p. 44).
facade dormer - used in Gothic domestic architecture. It is a dormer that is featured in the center roofline of the facade.
The dormers are modest and made in an almost authentic half-timber method. The oriel window is multi-paned and sports a copper hood. The larger windows on the first floor are multi-paned as well.
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Cape Cod House With Dormers
Cape Cod House With Sidelights
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Back Bay town house in Romanesque Revival style, including heavy stone (or veneer) facade, round-arched entryway, parapetted dormers, and Victorian-era oriel window (projecting window opening above entryway.
2. Jerseyville, IL. County courthouse.
Victorian homes are most commonly two stories with steep roof pitches, turrets and dormers. Porches are often large with turned posts and decorative railing. Decorative gable trim, corbels, and a variation of exterior finishes.
In Germany, where the roofs are very lofty, there are three or four rows of dormers, one above the other, but it does not follow that the space in the roof is necessarily subdivided by floors. In some of the French châteaux the dormers (Fr.
Dormers were usually present. Some had a full-width porch with classical columns. Others were without porches or featured small entry porches. The two-story rectangular house was also built with side-gabled roofs.
The following are types of dormers:
Eyebrow - roof windows that look like eyebrows.
Façade - a dormer that is featured in the center roofline of the facade. Usually has a lancet window and vergeboard scroll sawn decor.
with two dormers,
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Most Cape Cod houses have these features:
1.5 stories
small, rectangular volumes
gable roofs
often several small dormers
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Dormers are often set in the lower slope. The upper slope is usually not visible from the ground. The term "mansard" comes from the French architect François Mansart (1598-1666) of the Beaux Arts School of Architecture in Paris, France.
- a style of architecture, popular in victorian Scotland which made a particular feature of complex roof lines, with bold chimneys, crow steps, dormers, round towers etc.
Curvy "eyebrow" dormers
Turrets, towers, verandas, and oriels
Asymmetrical floor plans ...
SECOND EMPIRE (SOUTHCOTT): a style of architecture where the structure has a mansard (French) roof, usually there are bonneted dormers in the curved section of the roof. It may be extravagantly ornate. (IMAGE) ...
Richardson (1838-1886) that are largely based on the Romanesque style of southeast France; typical elements include asymmetrical massing, round towers with conical roofs, massive walls with deep arched openings, hipped roofs with eyebrow dormers, ...
Bargeboards cut in fanciful geometric or naturalistic shapes trim the steep roofs. Porches are trimmed with lacy cut out brackets. Modest houses are symmetrically built but have steeply pitched roofs, dormers, and porches edged with bargeboard.
hipped - a roof with four uniformly pitched or sloping sides
jerkinhead - a gable roof with a hipped end
mansard - two slopes on each of its four sides; one part very steep and curved, often with dormers ...
of the style: a sweep of steps leading to a carved stone door-case; rows of painted sash windows in boxes set flush with the brickwork; stone [quoins]] emphasising corners; a central triangular pediment set against a hipped roof with dormers; ...
 See also: Dormer, House, Architecture, Gable, Brick
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