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Dormer window of the Building of Préfecture de police de Paris (île de la Cité) Gable dormers at Hospices de Beaune in Beaune, France Pair of hip roof dormer windows on the Howard Memorial Hall, Letchworth. A dormer is a roofed structure, often containing a window, that projects vertically beyond the plane of a pitched roof. [1]
Camden Malthouse (left) and Camden Mill (1880) beyond, Bath [1] In general architecture a lucarne is a dormer window.The term is borrowed from French: lucarne, which refers to a dormer window, usually one set into the middle of a roof although it can also apply to a façade lucarne, where the gable of the lucarne is aligned with the face of the wall.
Unlike the Second Empire, where upper story windows were contained within dormers, Neo-Mansard roofs have window openings cut through the steep slope of the lower roof, forming a recessed window. Gambrel, curb, kerb: A roof similar to a mansard but sloped in one direction rather than both.
Typical features include quoins at the corners to define elements, elaborate dormer windows, pediments, brackets, and strong entablatures. There is a clear preference for a variation between rectangular and segmental arched windows; these are frequently enclosed in heavy frames (either arched or rectangular) with sculpted details.
An oeil-de-boeuf (French: [œj.də.bœf]; English: "bull's eye"), also œil de bœuf and sometimes anglicized as ox-eye window, is a relatively small elliptical window, typically for an upper storey, and sometimes set in a roof slope as a dormer, or above a door to let in natural light. These are relatively small windows, traditionally oval.
A mansard roof on the Château de Dampierre, by Jules Hardouin-Mansart, great-nephew of François Mansart. A mansard or mansard roof (also called French roof or curb roof) is a multi-sided gambrel-style hip roof characterised by two slopes on each of its sides, with the lower slope at a steeper angle than the upper, and often punctured by dormer windows.