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Sentence Examples The prominent gable roof has the intriguing quality of seeming to float above the structure. The back and sides were apparently gilded, and the underside of the gable roof painted red. Hip roofs are gable roofs with the ends brought together at the same pitch as the rest of the roof. The steeply pitched gable roof, shutters and horizontal siding are other details often found in farmhouses. Steeply-pitched intersecting gable roofs were a key motif and decorated with spindlework and gingerbread. The chimneys, exposed on exterior walls and incorporated into corner piers, pierce the gable roofs at the ridges. The gable roof provides extra head room for doves, as they are larger than the other platform nesters. The house shown here has two gable roofs and two dormers, each with gable roofs of their own. The new gable roof, parallel to the existing nave and a Diocesan Center, composes a triad of related forms. This roof is broken by a low pediment-like gable on the facade, by gablets on each end, and by three tall chimneys. The Deadwood house has a typical asymmetrical composition with a steeply pitched hipped roof and a front-facing gable. The sitting room reeked of damp and mould, the source of which was seeping through the plaster on the south-facing gable end. The ridge of the upper-floor ceiling is offset from the central ridge of the gable roof above. I know that when you are framing a gable roof, you can use collar ties in lieu of attaching ceiling joists to the bottom of the rafters. But in Byrom Street, Blackburn town centre, near to the old St Wilfrid's school building, the gable end of a derelict church was blown down. Daubing a slogan on a wall is far cheaper than covering a gable end, and quicker. It is cropped close to the low-pitched gable roof of a ranch house where a mysterious figure enclosed in the oval medallion floats by. But the task proved impossible because the gable end of the building is used as an anchor point for a cable owned by the electricity company. A fireball then burst from the gable end of the second property and damaged a third. Tons of bricks and rubble crashed on to the pavement as half the gable end of the building gave way. Show More Sentences Designer Tony Cooper turned a wall at the gable end into a built-in unit that meets all the requirements. A building was also damaged near Castlecroddick when the gable end of a large garage collapsed during the gales. A double broken gable was placed atop displaying the festooned Chigi mountains and crowned by their star enclosed in a roundel. Worthy of note too was the altar arrangements beneath the gable end of what was once the Parish Church of Monasterevin. It is a real shame even to have lost the Victorian structure, but some of the frontage and the gable end are even older. Initially I shall think small, accepting private commissions on the basis of work exhibited on the gable end of the shop. In his time, Ken has seen his work adorn everything from gable end walls in his home town to the jumbo jets of the Virgin airline. With the possible exception of Feature 1 at Vaughn Branch, all appear to have been vertical walled, with hip or gable roofs. The south side is dominated by an impressive entrance portico topped by a Cape Dutch gable, but the architecture is an eclectic mix of styles. Most Tudor homes have stucco or masonry exteriors accented by ornamental half-timbering, massive chimneys and steep gable roofs. We've also put lights up to illuminate the gates and fitted 15 sodium lamps to the gable ends of houses. Among the demands made by the council are the painting of gable walls, plastering a brick chimney, and fixing loose slates. The gable braces along the exterior and the trim around all the windows help define the house. Stiffening in the other vertical plane is added by diagonal braces between the lattice girders on both gable walls. The openings should be equally distributed between the soffit and ridge vents or between each gable face. The roof could still be artificial slate but with natural stone gable upstands and stone copings. We recommend that the top triangle of brickwork of the front gable wall be taken down to first floor window head level. The roof is an inverted gable, a reference to all the gabled houses in the neighborhood. There are wall bartizans at two of the corners of the castle and one gable with a chimney as well as a free standing chimney. After discovering a serious crack in one of the gable walls, they decided instead to knock the house down and rebuild it. Show More Sentences The tree's branches structurally support the third-floor oriel extending halfway up the fourth floor or gable above it. The east facade has a parapeted gable with high roundel window with a group of 4 lancet windows below. The structure is capped with a low hipped-roof with a central transverse parapeted gable flanked by hipped dormers. The main gable roof, with its clerestories and secondary skillions, is clad in a specially rolled profile. Interior water vapor can also move into the attic space and condense on the gable ends, causing paint peeling there. The coping stones on the west gable have all been lifted to incorporate lead flashing. This frame house was constructed in 1888 with a front-facing gable and a bracketed cornice with returns. The gable front, frame building has a single entrance and a small loft door. The main façade preserves the original buttresses, the rose window and crowning at the gable end similar to other churches of that period. More recently still, the gable walls of the old church have been repointed and the valuable stained-glass window by Michael Healy protected by storm-glazing. Well-lit by a triple-light mullion and transom window with wooden surrounds, the landing was given additional light from a dormer window high up in the central gable. The exterior walls are of prefabricated wood sandwich panels except at the ground floor and on the gable walls, where the exterior shell is brick. The building would be a one and a half storey rectangular block, with some local stone finish and extensive fenestration in the front and gable elevations. Up the road in High Street is a set of old semi-detached houses, with attractive moulded pillars supporting the tin roofs over the verandah, with a gable at the end. They didn't realise there was any problem with putting it on the gable end and her husband had only finished it the day before the planning officer called. The gable end of a newly-built block of flats came tumbling down in Topping Street, off Walmersley Road, Bury, and landed on a Mercedes car, smashing its windows. Part of Selby town centre was cordoned off when the gable end of a shop was struck by lightning, leaving a chimney stack poised precariously over a busy shopping street. The house on which the words were originally written has been demolished for road widening, but the gable wall bearing the graffiti stands preserved on a traffic island. One gable jutted into the road with a projecting like window which stood out from the building like a glass box held together by a massive frame of wood. While the youngsters played handball against the gable wall, held boxing matches in a nearby field or tied up a couple of old socks as a football. Show More Sentences It may be that the change in form and lack of central posts reflect a shift from a hip roof with interior roof supports to a gable roof with a large central beam support. Between the 1760's and 1770's the gambrel roofs fell out of favor and were converted into a second story and a gable roof with or without dormers. A train was derailed after a wall collapsed on to the track, the gable end of a house crumbled on to a car, trees toppled over and garden fences were blown away. In some cases, gable end cladding can be replaced with space sheeting. He said children had repeatedly kicked a football at his gable end wall for two years and that the thudding had brought him and his wife, Sue, to the end of their tether. On the front facade, on the road side, is a projection of the left side, the gable of which acts as a support for a decorative chimney flue. Installing final course at peak of gable Cut the panel to the desired measurements. The last two are the furthest away and have half timbered facades and classic gable roofs. Fifty percent of the ventilation area should be continuous soffit vents and the other fifty percent should be gable, ridge or roof vents. One house had a gable roof: the classic, inverted V-shape in which two sloping planes rise from two parallel walls and meet along a center line. The structure consists of a tall central nave flanked by lower aisles and transepts The long nave has a steep, slate gable roof. Built in the same style as the manor house, the dwelling has a gable roof with four Jacobin-style dormer windows and a clipped gable at the end. The extensively pulled down gable roof and the deep window reveals create the typical atmosphere of this railway station. On the rear façade is a lateral bay topped by a large gable roof dormer in which a loggia covered by a triangular arch is recessed. Its flat tile covered gable roof features dormer windows with projecting eaves and hinged skylights. The gable roof with a roof pitch of 22° gives the building its classic look. A gable roof design dealt with the problem of leaks encountered in most of the flat roofs of the prefabricated buildings. Its original gable roof had a fire-wall which was demolished when the roof was tranformed into a mansard roof at the end of the XIXth century. The lovely veranda and the mansard roof with gable dormers give the structure a particular charm. It's a four-color litho print gable top carton with a pour spout. Show More Sentences The same violent, primal appeal appeared on-screen and off-screen with gable. The façade, crowned by a gable, includes a large demi-rose window above smaller windows framed by a massive central arch. This wooden house, with its gable roof and dormer window, is typical of old working-class housing in Montreal. This L-shaped manor house is topped with slate gable roofs and sprocket roofs on the section set at right angles. James had designed and built the house with an extended gable in the roof. In the back gable was the battle of the Lapiths and Centaurs at the wedding of Pirithous. The Diele is entered through a large gateway at the gable end of the building. It may be attached to a roof ridge, as an extension of the gable, or supported by brackets against a wall. The later Archaic pedimental figures were executed virtually in the round, standing against or just free from the background of the gable. In the front gable the chariot race between Pelops and Oenomaus was represented, and both parties were shown preparing for the race. To the left of the facade, a span of openings similar to those in the building was added against the gable in the early 20th century. The rear facade of the building is a gable facade with a square tower adjoined to it. A second option is to use gable vents in the area above the attic ceiling and eave vents in the side areas. The semi-detached bungalow's roof was blown off, the front windows were blown out and the main gable wall and internal rear wall were both blown down. At Sandwich a loud noise emanated from the Channel, as church arches cracked and the gable end of a transept fell at St Peter's Church. A gable flashing is used to reduce the visual impact of the trimmed sheet. The oldest part is the facade, Romanesque at the bottom, where stands the beautiful thirteenth century portal and a row of arches, further up you notice the hand gable and a Gothic rose window. On one gable, an added veranda has windows with fanlights, is protected by a canopy and overlooks a small paved terrace which can be directly accessed from the kitchen. It will give on to a loggia, which will be used to extend exhibitions outdoors and to guard and isolate the gallery from the emergency stairway in the north-east gable wall. The whitewash, the bright colours of flowers in windows and balconies and a number of crude stairways form an urban complex with clear Moorish influences that are emphasised by the gable roofs of the houses. Show More Sentences The building overlooks a small square square, from which you access the ruins of the monastery, in whose vicinity there is the bell gable of the church. In a good state of repair, the main house is topped with a slate, sprocket roof, featuring a gable pediment dormer and two facade roof dormers that cut into the overhanging eaves. Additional information: In Landsberger Allee 228 some colossal, colorfully painted concrete pieces of furniture are put up at the gable end of a house. The church interior, dimly lit by a series of narrow rectangular windows and by the four openings in the gable end, is remarquable for its bareness and its balanced proportions. Slightly set back from the facade, adjoining a gable wall, a later extension with a roof terrace receives the stone stairway that leads to the porch way which is protected by a wrought iron and glass canopy. Said house includes two bedrooms, one of which has traces of an old mullioned window, the measurements and proportions of which were used to create a new opening in the gable end wall which in the past was blind. Roller blinds fulfil high physical requirements: high levels of heat radiation, darkening, air-conditioning effects and, of course, formal features are the requirements, whether for angled skylights or gable windows. Widely published renderings of the trade center memorial showed St. Nicholas with a gable roof and belfry, but this was a kind of visual space holder. The exterior forms of a combination of gable and hip roofs reflect the forms seen in many ancestral fishing villages. Near its southern end was a steel tower a little taller than the bathtub ring, and standing on top of the tower was a structure that, from a distance, looked like a house with a gable roof. The village exhibits an unmistakably Moorish urban layout: narrow streets-some excessively so-houses with dazzling white façades and gable roofs, and some slopes that make wheeled traffic impossible in certain places. The flat roof offers an aesthetic alternative for the classic gable roof. With a roof pitch of only 5 degrees and a circulating attic of 2 meters, the outside appearance of the SOLUTION is that of a futuristic, cubic exhibition hall rather than of a conventional gable roof tent. In 1957, the steep gable roof was replaced with a flat roof. The original mills were connected, the gable roofs removed, and additional floors were added with flat roofs. In addition, sand-lime products can be cut to shape at the factory in accordance with the building plans, so that units forming the gable or window openings can be pre-prepared. The wrought iron entrance door is in one of the gable walls. Leong carried the lines of the bridge's gable roof out over the old house and to a living room addition in front. An aesthetic alternative to more classic buildings with gable roof. A house with an interlocking-tile gable roof and millstone grit walls. Show More Sentences It was built in the eighteenth century but was remodelled in 1929. Its construction is very simple, with a rectangular floor plan and a wooden gable roof frame. Sigma. a complete industrial building with a classic gable roof. Flat roofs became compulsory for new buildings. Even the gable roof of the town hall was demolished during this period and replaced with a flat roof. The main building of the former school consists of a full basement three storey building with a gable roof, which is located within a closed perimeter block development. The school was partly in front of them and on fine evenings, the gable end was used as a ball alley and it was quite a gathering place for young people. Complete snow design examples of a gable roof metal building with a roof step, a pole barn with a hip roof, and a single-family residence round out the book. As shown in the photograph above, the addition's gable roof breaks into two parts that follow the pitch of the original roof and echo details like the trim and extended beams. The building's facade features a large rose window, elaborate cornices, molded brick work and central gable, along with keyhole-shaped windows that accomodate stained glass. Examples from Classical Literature To our right was a large farmhouse, of two stories and a gable roof, and the nearest gun to the house was not over 30 feet off. The centre gable overlaps the portal beneath, and the apexes of the two side gables are beyond the middle of the two side portals. A further development was to make the porch a kind of arcaded avant-porte surmounted by a gable with sculptured features. The friendly 'busman directed me to a gable sheltered by a yellow jasmine-tree, where I tapped on the door with my knuckle. Skew corbel, a stone placed at the base of the sloping side of a gable wall to resist any sliding tendency of the sloping coping. The gables are built with circular bricks, and there is a cusped circular window in each gable. The apex and corners of the gable were provided with acroteria, standing upon special bases. She climbed to the gable, looked down, and saw the son making a great pot of stirabout for his mother, and she hurrying him. He had brought the rays of the lamp to bear upon a door at the gable opposite the Maxim gun. It is divided into three equal portions each of which is surmounted by a gable containing what was at one time a wheel window. There was no reminiscence of the usual Southern porticoed gable or columned veranda. The tympanum of the gable is covered with a reticulation of round beads or rolls. If he heard a sigh from the dairy loft, he sat down against the gable and groaned. He did not heed the admonition, and on April 25th a mob assembled, and hung Jackson to the gable end of Wallace's cabin. The heavens were obscured by clouds, excepting a small place about the shape of the gable end of a house. Two German soldiers were throwing down hay from the gable end of the Mandrin livery-stable which overlooked the wall. The gable end windows are set in plaster arches, flanked in each case by a 4-foot-high candle shelf. I found my uncle at the gable end, watching the signs of the weather, with a pipe in his fingers. The grey house presented a gable end to the street, and stretched a wing comfortably on either side. The soil is usually hard and dry, and the water runs off as though from a gable roof. Show More Sentences A glimpse of gable roof and red chimneys add far more to the beauty of such a scene than could the grandest palace. The Meyer home was altered soon afterwards, a gable roof and additional windows being added. A couple of ornate pillars flanked the door, and a gable roof, topped by a gilt vane, surmounted it. It is two stories high, with a third story of attic chambers in the gable roof. Rice crept over the wet strip of gable roof, and entered the window after his sister. In some cases the single house is constructed upon these proportions, as shown by Fig. 226, with a gable roof. On the apex of the gable is a canopied niche containing a statue of wykeham. A Hercules within, and the quadriga upon the gable of the same temple, both also of terra-cotta, are ascribed to this artist. There's not a soul in the house, but that young daguerreotype-man that sleeps in the north gable. The gable walls of the transepts and the western wall are also Turkish. Tom partly uncovered a dismal caricature of a house with two gable ends to it and a corkscrew of smoke issuing from the chimney. A clock was on the midmost gable, and pointed now towards one o'clock. He had commenced his labors, in the first year of their residence, by erecting a tall, gaunt edifice of wood, with its gable toward the highway. The floor was sunk about six feet below the surface of the ground, with a low door at the gable end, extremely narrow, and partly sunk. The second and third parts of the building are covered with a gable roof. One of the ground-floor windows at the gable end of the house was open. The street having been widened about forty years ago, the front gable was now precisely on a line with it. Always used of the gable loft, you know, and the wind above the thatch. The gable showed above the trees, and I pointed it out to him. The Sanctus bell still hangs over the eastern gable of the nave. Show More Sentences Beasts project at the gable angles, and the summit it crowned by a finial. The slate mansard, copper standing seam and shingled gable roofs were fully replaced and all brick and stone masonry was restored. Nothing was left of it except the body of the magazine with one gable end. The opposite end is very different, and has a hipped or gambrel gable. A subdued slam above told that the door of the east gable had been shut with equal vehemence. The yellowbacks glowed like a sunset on the gable end of John D.'s barn. But the spare room was out of the question for such a stray waif, so there remained only the east gable room. Notice the marks of the gable of Lady chapel in the transept wall. After each meal Marilla carried a well-filled tray to the east gable and brought it down later on not noticeably depleted. Turning quickly, she was surprised at sight of a young man, who had found access into the garden by a door opening out of another gable than that whence she had emerged. It has already been observed, that, in the basement story of the gable fronting on the street, an unworthy ancestor, nearly a century ago, had fitted up a shop. The light could not have been good, though if I brought my books to the little gable window that overlooked the groaning and whistling gristmill I could see well enough. The roof seems to fly away, and the oblique line of the gable responds to the sloped facade of the old gym by blending seamlessly with the slope of its roof. At the entrance to the village was a cottage whose gable jutted into the road, and before applying for a lodging she stood under its shelter, and watched the evening close in. Like mice we scampered past the great schoolroom, with its gable snipping a paler sky than ever, and the shadows melting even in the colonnade underneath. 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