Weatherboard -- Wood siding consisting of overlapping boards usually thicker at one edge than the other.
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WEATHERBOARD An exterior horizontal wooden board applied with the lower edge overlapping the board below used to form exterior walls (wider and less shaped than a clapboard, although used for the same purpose).
Weatherboarding Siding consisting of overlapping narrow boards usually thicker at one edge
than the other.
Winders Steps with radiating risers and thus narrowing treads.
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Weatherboard A board fixed externally to the bottom of a door to exclude driving rain.
Wet Rot (Coniophora puteana et al.). Decay of timber due to damp conditions. Not to be confused with the more serious dry rot.
Weatherboarding / Clapboard / Weather-slating / Weather-tiling
- form of wall cladding composed of overlapping horizontal boards on a timber framework.
Clapboard is weatherboarding with a feather edge.
SHIPLAP - Weatherboarding of tongued and grooved planking.
SILL - The lower horizontal part of a window frame. Materials may vary, generally timber or stone, can be tiled.
SKYLIGHT - A window set into a roof or ceiling to provide extra lighting.
clapboard (weatherboard) - a house siding of long, narrow boards with one edge thicker than the other, overlapped to cover the outer walls of frame structures
column - upright pillar serving as a support or ornament for a building
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ClapboardingThe North American term for weatherboarding, i.e. wall cladding of overlapping horizontal boards.Clapper bridgeA bridge with one long stone forming the roadway.
Clapboard - Tapered horizontal boards used as siding, thickest on their bottom edge; each overlaps the one below. Also know as weatherboard or siding.
Classical - Refers to the architecture and design ideas of ancient Rome and Greece.
Ashlar - Stone that has been squared and laid in regular courses with fine joints. Render on the external walls of Victorian buildings was often ruled to imitate this, while weatherboards were sometimes similarly imitative, (ashlar boards).
The low hip roof extends into a modern addition to the house which has the same weatherboard finish. The owners have meticulously maintained the proportions and detailing of the original building with their extensions.
WEATHERBOARDING: overlapping boards fixed (usually horizontally) on the external walls of timber- framed buildings.
 See also: Frame, House, Timber, Cladding, Gable
  
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