Gutter A metal or plastic pipe that collects water off the eave.H
Half-timber A framed construction method where spaces between members are filled with masonry.
gutter
A metal or plastic trough along the edge of a roof that collects water off the eave and carries it to the down spout.
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Gutter A channel along the eaves of a roof or the edge of a path for the removal of rainwater.
Hardcore Broken bricks or stone which, consolidated, are used as a base under floors and patios.
Header A brick laid end on.
Gutters (Rainwater Goods) Collects rainwater from roof coverings and discharge to down pipes.
Hanger Metal bracket supporting a joint between structural timbers. Can also describe a timber upright between rafters and ceiling joists.
GUTTER
On a building, a trough fixed under or along the eaves for draining rainwater from a roof.
Valley Gutter: Horizontal or sloping gutter, usually lead-or-tile-lined, at the internal intersection between two roof slopes.
gutter, trough - a channel along the eaves or on the roof; collects and carries away rainwater ...
gutter A shallow channel of metal or wood set immediately below and along the eaves of a building to catch and carry off rainwater.
header A masonry wall unit of brick which is laid so that its short end is exposed.
Backgutter - A roof gutter on a uphill side of a chimney
Backhoe, Backacter - A versatile excavator with a bucket on a end of an arm, rather like a giant human arm ...
Box Gutter - square shaped gutter, often found behind a parapet wall.
Breeze Block - originally made from clinker cinders (or "breeze") -the term now commonly used to refer to various types of concrete building blocks.
GABLE, in architecture, the upper portion of a wall from the level of the eaves or gutter to the ridge of the roof. The word is a southern English form of the Scottish gavel, or of an O. Fr. word gable or jable, both ultimately derived from O.
Berkeley High School, Berkeley, California (Gutterson & Corlett, 1935-1939)
Berkeley Public Library, Berkeley, California
Boston Avenue Methodist Church in Tulsa, Oklahoma (Bruce Goff, 1929)
The Boyd Theater in Philadelphia, PA 1928 ...
- rainwater head receiving water from rhones or gutters.
Hopper windows are a common feature in industrial architecture, having been introduced c1870.
Acroteria Decorative galvanised iron pieces attached to the corners of roof guttering Architrave The moulding around a door or window Attached Two or more structures joined together by a common wall Attic A room within the roof of a ...
Outlet - A passage connecting the gutter to the Down spout.
Outside Stop - A strip of wood or metal fastened to the inside perimeter of a window frame that holds the sash against the parting strip.
Gargoyle
a spout placed on the roof gutter of a Gothic building to carry away rainwater; usually carved in the shapes of fanciful animals and grotesque beasts.
Overlapping gutter-shaped tiles with a characteristic blue-green colour were used for the roofs of important buildings and may represent Spanish influence.
That way the gargoyles were installed on the buttresses and were connected to the gutters at the base of the roof. They did this with channels along the top of the flying buttresses.
gargoyle: grotesque spout with human or animal mouth, head or body, projecting from a gutter and carrying rainwater clear of the wall.
garth: closed garden, especially the space enclosed by a cloister.
gargoyle - a spout usually carved in the shape of an animal or demon, and connected to a gutter for throwing rain water from the roof of a building. See Gothic Field Guide Spotlight.
RAINWATER HEAD
Basin at the top of a downspout that collects water from a gutter.
RAKING CORNICE
Molding that follows the slope of a pediment or gable.
Gargoyle
A grotesquely carved figure of a human or animal, esp. one with an open mouth that serves as a spout and projects from a gutter to throw rainwater clear of a building.
The illustration, from the Bemis-Ransom House, is not a spout.
Rainwater head - A box-shaoed structure of metal, usually cast iron or lead, and sometimes decorated, in which water from a gutter or parapet is collected and discharged into a down-pipe.
Fascia - Boards installed to a roof to protect the ends of trusses or rafters and on which gutters are attached.
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Gargoyles: A water sprout terminating in a grotesquely carved figure of a human or animal, and projecting from the gutter of a cathedral such as Notre-Dame in Paris.
Leader
A horizontal or vertical cylinder usually made of metal, which carries water from the gutter to the ground.
ShellThin, self-supporting roofing membrane of timber or concrete.Sheugh(Scots): A trench or open drain; a street gutter.ShinglesThin pieces of wood like overlapping tiles, used externally.Shouldered arch ...
obstruction of the windlass and often the machinery for moving the drawbridge as well. Some gateways were provided with a succession of porticullises, at some distance apart. See gatehouse, successive porticullis. (L. porta, gate; coulisse, gutter).
 See also: House, Ground, Timber, Eaves, Dome
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