gingerbread - a word to describe any kind of decoration on a home found in such places as the gables, vergeboards, porches, eaves, and around windows or doors. The decoration is generally created with a sawn scroll work technique.
Gingerbread Pierced curvilinear ornament made with jig saw or scroll saw much used in the
Gothic Revival.
Gingerbread - Fanciful, delicate trimwork.
Groin vault - also known as square vault, made by intersecting two barrel vaults at right angles. The spaces created by this vault were called bay areas.
Gingerbread
The highly decorative and often superfluous woodwork applied to a Victorian style house.
Glass Block ...
Gingerbread
Heavily, gaudily, and superfluously ornamented Commonly used in reference to late 19th century Victorian architecture.
Illustration from Richard Hatch House ...
Gingerbread - Elaborate wooden fretwork used on gables or as porch trim
Gutta - Droplike element found underneath a triglyph or in a mutule
Gothic Arch - Arch with pointed top ...
"Gingerbread House", buit 1855. A blend of Colonial and early-Victorian architecture ...
GINGERBREADdecorative woodwork
HIPPED ROOFa roof that slopes on four sides
HOODa moulding located above a window or door to deflect rainwater ...
The Gingerbread Age: A View of Victorian America. New York: Greenwich House, 1983.
Maass, John. The Victorian Home in America. New York: Hawthorne Books, 1972.
Massey, James C. and Shirley Maxwell. "Queen Anne and Why We Love Her So.
Gingerbread ornaments in all eight gable peaks
Awnings
In addition, the owners installed stained glass windows from historic harvesters. Displayed along the front facade of the building, the windows add to the Victorian appearance the building.
Sometimes referred to as Carpenter Gothic Revival, cottages will have whimsical medieval details such as balconies, lacey gingerbread bargeboards and ornamental chimneys.
BARGEBOARD or VERGEBOARD Decorative woodwork or gingerbread attached to the projecting rafters of a gable roof.
(Illustration from A.J. Downing, The Architecture of Country Houses, 1850, showing part of a bargeboard with a pinnacle) ...
The roof is not intricate, but has gables decorated with vergeboarding (gingerbread).
sawn wood ornament - Curves, scrolls, lace-work ornamentation made with a jig, band or scroll saw. Gingerbread, as it was called in the late 19th-early 20th century, can be seen on bargeboard, gable trim, over doors and windows.
carpenter gothic - ornate wood decoration; also called gingerbread, carpenter's lace ...
The Spindled type used an abundance of wood enhancements and decoration incorporating elaborate motifs and "gingerbread" ornamentation using spindles, brackets, and curlicue cutouts.
bargeboard Board or other decorative woodwork fixed to the edges or projecting rafters of a gabled roof. Sometimes called gingerbread.
barrel vault A masonry vault in the form of a semicircular arch.
Not surprisingly therefore he had his critics who sneeringly referred to his work as "Adam's Gingerbread".
 See also: Architecture, House, Brick, Porch, Gable
  
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