Architectural Glossary Click on a term to see more detail

Architectural styles
Arts and Crafts Domestic Gothic Garden City Georgian
Italianate Neo-Georgian Old English Queen Anne
Vernacular      
Doors
Door Case Fanlight Gothic heads  
Fixtures
Copper Earth closet Mouldings Overmantel
Picture rail Range    
Roofs
Balustrade Dutch Gable Finial Gable
Hipped roof Pediment Turret  
Rooms
Drawing room Dressing room Parlour Kitchen/living room
Larder Library Privy Scullery
Servants' hall Service room Study Wash-house
Walls
Cavity wall Cornice Crenellated Decorative motif
Façade Flemish bond Half-timbering Header
Polychrome Rendering Stretcher Stone strapwork
Swags & scrolls Tile hung Weather-boarded  
Windows
Bay Capital Column Dormer window
Gothic heads Glazing bars Mullioned & transomed Plaster lintel
Plate tracery Sash Stone dressings