Vergeboard
The original name for bargeboard, vergeboard was used in early English wood construction. Now it is term for the decorative wooden edging on Gothic Revival and Victorian houses.
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Bargeboards -- also called vergeboards -- hang from the projecting end of a roof. Bargeboards are often elaborately carved and ornamented. Homes in the Carpenter Gothic style have highly ornamented bargeboards.
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Vergeboard -- The vertical face board following and set under the roof edge of a gable, sometimes decorated by carving.
Weatherboard -- Wood siding consisting of overlapping boards usually thicker at one edge than the other.
VERGEBOARD See bargeboard.
VESTRY A room attached to a church, where the clergy and choir robe in religious garments.
VOUSSOIR Wedge-shaped stones or bricks in an arch; the centre one is the keystone.
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bargeboard/vergeboard - the extended boards from a gable end-often decorated in Victorian and Gothic architecture.
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VERGEBOARDSdecorative trim along gable ends of a roof or dormer. Sometimes called "bargeboards".
VERNACULARstructures, built without the help of a professional architect, which reflect regional and cultural adaptations of architectural fashions.
Bargeboard (vergeboard, gableboard)
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Excellent example of "Carpenter Gothic" with vertical board-and-batten siding, steeply-pitched gable roof, pointed-arch windows, and decorated vergeboards under the eaves.
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Bargeboards(corruption of ‘vergeboards'): Boards, often carved or pierced (called fretted), fixed beneath the eaves of a gable to cover and protect the rafters.Barley-sugar columnsColumns with twisted spiral shafts.
bargus, or barcus, a scaffold,dand not from the now obsolete synonym "vergeboard"), ...
Bargeboard - also called vergeboards or fly rafters - decorative boards located at the end of a gable. Bargeboards are often elaborately carved and ornamented (in Victorian and Gothic architecture).
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, intricate vergeboards were replaced by ...
bargeboard - a board, often ornately curved, attached to the projecting edges of a gabled roof; sometimes referred to as vergeboard. This feature was used throughout the Middle Ages as well as in the Gothic Revival of the 19th century.
Gables commonly have decorative vergeboards and the wall surface extend into the gable or gables. Windows are commonly seen extended into gables (with or without the pointed arch or gothic shape pointed arch.
 See also: Verge, Architecture, House, Bargeboard, Gable
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