Verge Board: Timber, sometimes decorative plastic material, placed at the verge of a roof: also known as bargeboard.
Wainscot: Wood panelling or boarding on the lower part of an internal wall.
Verge board
Projecting boards placed against the incline of the gable of a building, hiding the ends of the horizontal roof timbers.; sometimes decorated. Also called "bargeboards."
Illustration from Jewett M. Richmond House ...
verge board - see bargeboard
vernacular - used to describe buildings with little or no stylistic pretension, or those which may reflect a rural interpretation of high-style architecture of the day ...
VERGE BOARD - Timber, sometimes decorative, placed at the verge of a roof; also known as barge board.
VERTICAL DAMP PROOF COURSE - Used at change in level and in basements and adjacent to window and door openings.
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decorated verge boards
trusses in gables
round towers
multi-level eaves
flate pantile roof
tudor (flattened gothic) arch and sometimes round arched windows, doors, porches
board-and-batten door
oriel
dominant decorative chimneys ...
Identifying features of Gothic Revival are steeply pitched roofs, usually with steep cross gables; intricately carved verge boards (barge boards) along the eaves and gable edges (beyond the mid-1860's, ...
The roof is topped with a finial, and the vergeboarding on the roof is a Canadian classic, the ‘droop'. Here is how Marion Macrae describes this detail in her excellent book The Ancestral Roof . "The verge boards conjure up visions of many ...
 See also: Ornament, House, Verge, Gable, Eaves
  
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