1. Bay Window:
A generic term for all protruding window constructions. They are most commonly polygonal or square in plan but may also be curved.
2. Casement Window:
A window that is attached to its frame by one or more hinges.
3. Clapboard:
Is the cladding or siding of a house consisting of long thin wooden boards that overlap one another horizontally on the outside of the wall.
4. Dormer:
A structural element of a building that protrudes from the plane of a sloping roof surface.
5. Eaves:
The edge of a roof.
6. Fanlight:
A window, semicircular or semi-elliptical in shape, with glazing bars or tracery sets radiating out like an open fan.
7. Palladian Window:
Three-part window composed of a large, arched central section flanked by two narrower, shorter sections having square tops.
8. Pediment:
A classical architectural element consisting of the triangular section found above the horizontal structure, typically supported by columns.
9. Portico:
A porch leading to the entrance of a building, or extended as a colonnade, with a roof structure over a walkway, supported by columns or enclosed by walls.
10. Rafter:
One of a series of sloped structural beams that extend from the ridge or hip to the wall plate, down slope perimeter or eave, and that are designed to support the roof deck and its associated loads.
11. Sidelights:
A window, usually with a vertical emphasis, that flanks a door.
12. Turret:
A small tower that projects vertically from the wall of a building such as a medieval castle.
ROOF STYLES
1. gable roof
Most common residential roof. 2 sloping sides meet to form a ridge.
2. gambrel roof
A roof with two slopes on each side, the lower slope having the steeper pitch. Often fount in colonial revival houses in the "dutch" style.
3. hip roof
A roof with slopes on all four sides. The hips are the lines formed when the slope meet at the corner.
4. saltbox
Pitched roof that slopes down to the back.
5. mansard
