Rafter - An inclined beam supporting the roof of a house.
Ramp - To climb, to slope from one level to another, an inclined plane.
rafter
A roof beam sloping from the ridge to the wall. In most houses, rafters are visible from the attic. In styles such as a craftsman bungalows and some "rustic" contemporaries, they are exposed.
raking cornice ...
Rafter: One of a series of inclined members to which a roof covering is fixed; any of a series of small, parallel beams for supporting the sheathing and covering of a pitched roof.
RAFTERS The wooden structural support beams for a roof, sometimes visible on the exterior for certain building types and styles.
Rafters
The sloping member in a roof system that supports the sheathing and roof covering. Exposed rafters are common in Bungalow and Craftsman style homes.
Rustication ...
Rafter: A sloping roof beam, usually timber, forming the carcass of a roof.
Random Rubble: Primitive method of stone wall construction with no attempt at bonding or coursing.
Rafter - An inclined timber which forms the side of a roof, to which the roof covering is attached.
Rake - Top edge of a gable end.
Return - Receding edge of a flat face.
Rafter - Timbers that form the main part of the roof frame going from the wall plate up to the ridge.
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Rafter A sloping roof beam, usually timber, supporting the roof covering and forming the carcass of a roof.
Random Rubble Basic early method of irregular stone or brick wall construction with no attempt at bonding or coursing.
Rafter: Rafters are the structural members that support the roof sheathing to which the outer covering of the roof (shingles, etc.) is attached.
Rafters - A series of inclined timber structural members to which a roof covering is fixed.
Raked - Sloping (e.g. a floor). Scraped out (e.g. brickwork joints. to about l0mm depth).
Rafter
- a timber sloping from the ridge to the wall head and supporting the roof coverings. An angle rafter supports hip ends.
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rafter, baulk
beam - long thick piece of wood or metal or concrete, etc., used in construction
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RAFTER TAIL
Part of the rafter that extends beyond the wall.
RAIL
Horizontal structural member of a door or sash.
rafter - framing member supporting the roof
repointing - removal of old mortar from joints of masonry construction and filling in with new mortar
return - the part of a pattern that continues around a corner ...
Rafter: Structural members of a roof that support the roof load and run from the ridge to the eaves (overhang).
Rails: The horizontal members of a window sash or door panel.
Rafter
A roof beam sloping from the ridge to the wall. Is one of a series of sloped structural members, designed to support the roof deck and its associated loads.
fly rafters, gable rafters, gableboards, barge rafters
Examples:
"The greater number of bargeboards in this district are moulded." - Ralph Nevill, Old Cottage & Domestic Architecture in South-west Surrey (1889), p. 35 ...
Hip Rafter - The rafter at the corner of a hip roof.
Hipped roof - A roof with slopes on all four sides. The "hips" are the lines formed when the slopes meet at the corners.
Side purlins: pairs of timbers placed some way up the slope of the roof, which carry common rafters. Butt purlins or tenoned purlins are tenoned into either side of the principals.
Prefabricated A house whose substantial parts are made entirely or in sections away from the building site.Q
Quoin A stone or block reinforcing or accenting the corners of a building.R
Rafter A sloping beam which supports a roof.
Collar Beam - horizontal tie beam of a roof, which is joined to opposing rafters at a level above that of the wall plates.
Collar - horizontal timber member designed to restrain opposing roof slopes.
Single-framed: if consisting entirely of transverse members (such as rafters with or without braces, collars, tie-beams, king-posts or queen-posts, etc. [see below] not tied together longitudinally.
Vitruvius (iv. 2) states that the dentil represents the end of a rafter (asser); and since it occurs in its most pronounced form in the Ionic temples of Asia Minor, the Lycian tombs and the porticoes and tombs of Persia, ...
The outer wall of the mosque consists of a mud wall containing posts supporting the roof rafters. Immediately inside the outer wall there is circular arrangement of wooden pillars which also supports the roof rafters.
Thus a frame composed of three end-connected members can be extended indefinitely by the principle of triangulation-attaching a horizontal tie beam to the bottom of two peaked rafters.
To lend support to larger installations, angled rafters linked the front cross bar to the building facade.
Wide roof overhangs with exposed rafter tails or decorative beams or braces under the gables
Centered dormer in an unfinished attic with a roof line that mirrors main roof ...
The theater is filling up, and all the people are sitting aloft presenting a splendid sight and composed of numberless faces, so that many times the very rafters and roof above are hidden by human bodies.
IDENTIFYING FEATURES: Low-pitched, gabled roof, wide overhang of eaves, exposed rafters (rafter tails) under eaves, decorative brackets (knee braces or corbels); incised porch (beneath main roof); ...
Eaves:A thick board with a feathered edge nailed across the rafters or borders of the roof which over hangs the wall. It's function is to cast off water.
Pendant:a suspended ornament attached to the roof.
occasionally exposed rafters
pointed/gothic arched windows, doors, porches
oriel
label mold
chamfered porch supports
full-width one-story porch or partial (often inset in L) porch ...
Plate - A horizontal structural member placed on a wall or supported on posts, studs, or corbels to carry the trusses of a roof or to carry the rafters directly; a shoe or base member, as of a partition or other frame; ...
Collar purlin, a beam running longitudinally immediately beneath the collars joining pairs of common rafters.
VIGAS
Ceiling beams or rafters made from single logs or poles to support the ceiling and roof. The width of a church or room was, therefore, limited by the length of trees that could be lumbered in the vicinity and hauled to the mission.
Vocabulary
WALL PLATE - the top of the wall, where the rafters connect to the wall.
POST - the main vertical pieces of wood in a wall.
BRACE - the diagonal (can be curved or straight) piece of wood that helps strengthen the frame.
STRUT A roof timber, either upright and connected to the rafter above it, or sloping, connecting another post to the rafter.
STUDS The upright timbers in a timber-framed building.
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The temple's roof is also made of glazed ceramic tiles and has an overhanging cave distinguished by a graceful upward slope. The arc at which the roof turns comes from the intricate fit of rafters.
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) ...
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.
The woodwork covering the ends of rafters of porches etc
Barrel Roof
Continuous round-arched vault.
Bargeboard -- A board which hangs from the projecting end of a gable roof covering the end rafters, and often sawn into a decorative pattern.
Bay Window -- A window in a wall that projects at an angle to another wall.
bargeboard - ornamental board on a gable used to conceal the end rafters
bay window - a protruding space from the exterior wall. A bow window is a rounded bay.
A timber laid longitudinally along the top of a building wall to receive the ends of the rafters. In a timber framed building the posts and studs of the wall below are tenoned into it.
Weepers.
Exteriors could be any style, with typical features including irregular massing, low-slope gable roofs with wide eaves and exposed rafters, projecting beam ends or knee braces supporting bargeboards, porches with square-tapered columns or piers, ...
Chevron - A Romanesque moulding forming a zigzag; so called from the French word for a pair of rafters giving this form.
Informal or rustic materials or details (board-and-batten siding, barn door garage doors, Dutch doors, shake roof, exposed rafter beams, high brick foundations, dove-cotes, etc.)
Generally few decorative exterior features ...
 See also: Rafters, House, Frame, Architecture, Timber
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