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A gablefront house, also known as a gable front house or front gable house, is a vernacular (or "folk") house type in which the gable is facing the street or entrance side of the house. [1] They were built in large numbers throughout the United States primarily between the early 19th century and 1920.
Dutch gable, gablet: A hybrid of hipped and gable with the gable (wall) at the top and hipped lower down; i.e. the opposite arrangement to the half-hipped roof. Overhanging eaves forming shelter around the building are a consequence where the gable wall is in line with the other walls of the buildings; i.e., unless the upper gable is recessed.
An I-house is a two or three-story house that is one room deep with a double-pen, hall-parlor, central-hall or saddlebag layout. [15] New England I-house: characterized by a central chimney [16] Pennsylvania I-house: characterized by internal gable-end chimneys at the interior of either side of the house [16]
Generally the exterior of the building is clad with chamfered weatherboards, with simple framed windows. The corrugated iron roof features a double gable running north–south, with a discrete verandah awning on the southern elevation, and with the eastern verandah incorporated into the main roof of the building. Another gabled roof covering ...
This arrangement is a crossed gable roof Gable in Finland Decorative gable roof at 176–178 St. John's Place between Sixth and Seventh Avenue in the Park Slope neighborhood of Brooklyn, New York City. A gable is the generally triangular portion of a wall between the edges of intersecting roof pitches. The shape of the gable and how it is ...
A typical side-gabled bungalow in Louisville's Deer Park Neighborhood. The bungalow actually traces its origins to the Indian province of Bengal, the word itself derived from the Hindi bangla or house in Bengali style. [1] The native thatched roof huts were adapted by the British, who built bungalows as houses for administrators and as summer ...
The construction of the cabin suggests that it was built during the antebellum period. A 1 + 1 ⁄ 2-story log building with a gable roof, the cabin consists of one room with a loft above, and a brick and stone chimney. Also found on the northwest side of the property is a wood storage shed, a chicken house, and an outhouse, dating from around ...
This style of house has a brick facade (exterior) with timber frames supporting interior walls, usually of gyprock. Roofs are always hipped or gabled and tiled. As mentioned previously in this article, this style, without the painted and rendered brick facade, dominated suburban architecture in the 1950s – 1960s.