Bay Window: projection from the side of a house into which one or more windows are set.
Casement Window: Window that are hinged at the side.
Clapboard: A long, thin, flat piece of wood with edges horizontally overlapping in series, used to cover the outer walls of buildings.
Dormer: A structural element of a building that protrudes form the plane of a sloping roof surface.
Eaves: The part of a roof that meets or overhangs the walls of a building.
Fanlight: A window, semicircular or semi-elliptical in shape, with glazing bars or tracery sets radiating out like an open fan.
Palladian Window: Large window that is split into three parts.
Pediment: The triangular upper part of the front of a building in classical style, typically surmounting a portico of columns.
Portico: A porch leading to the entrance of a building, or extending as a colonnade, with a roof structure over a walkway, supported by columns or enclosed by walls.
Rafter: One of a series of sloped structural members that extend from the ridge or hip to the wall plate, downslope perimeter or eave, and that are designed to support the roof deck and its associated loads. A pair of rafters is a couple.
Sidelights: A narrow window or pane of glass set alongside a door or larger window.
Turret: A small tower that projects vertically from the wall of a building such as a medieval castle.
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