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Half- timber
Definition
Having a timber framework with the spaces filled with masonry or plaster.
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Solar
Definition
A room or apartment on an upper floor of a medieval English house.
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Jetty
Definition
An upper story of a building projecting beyond the one below.
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Quoin
Definition
An exterior angle of a masonry wall, or one of the stones or bricks forming such and angle, usually differentiated from adjoining surfaces by material, texture, color, size, or projection.
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ell
Definition
A wing at right angles to the length of a building 
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Lanai
Definition
A veranda or roofed patio
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porte-cochere
Definition
A porch roof projecting over a driveway at the entrance to a building and sheltering those getting in or out of vehicle
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Facade
Definition
The front of a building or any of its sides facing a public way or space.
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Parapet Wall
Definition
a wall-like barrier at the edge of a roofterracebalcony or other structure
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Broken Pediment
Definition
A pediment having it raking cornices interrupted at the crown or apex, the gap often being filled.
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cornice
Definition
decorative molding that crowns any building or furniture element: the cornice over a door or window, for instance, or the cornice around the edge of a pedestal.
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frieze
Definition
 is the wide central section part of an entablature and may be plain in the Ionic orCorinthian order—decorated with bas-reliefs. Even when neither columns nor pilasters are expressed, on anastylar wall it lies upon the architrave ('main beam') and is capped by the moldings of the cornice.
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engaged column
Definition
a column embedded in a wall and partly projecting from the surface of the wall, sometimes defined as semi or three-quarter detached.
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capital
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abacus
Definition
a flat slab forming the uppermost member or division of thecapital of a column
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