What do you call this

[johnbarry]

What would this be classed as when it’s part of your property,  Apex, Gable ?

Cheers
John

[PlaneMan]

I’d call it a gable end. No idea if that’s right though.

[The Duke]

I’m not sure either. Maybe a gable window.

[johnbarry]

Cheers both

Maybe it doesn’t have a name.

 

Cheers
John

[dwynnehugh]

John, I have just asked a builder who is doing some work on our house, he’s seen the photo and says it is a ‘gable’.  Hope that helps?

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[Ed P]

Wikipedia is your friend. The triangular bit is the ‘gable’ , the whole bit including the piece below is a ‘gable-end’ or ‘gable wall’ link. Depending which way it faces, the building itself might be described as ‘front gabled’, ‘side gabled’ etc.

[The Duke]

I’m sure he knows what a gable end is, I took the question to mean, is there a name for a small bay like outcrop with a gable end/gable upper.

As it is a gable end, yet isn’t actually the end of the house.

To me it’s like a mixture of a dorma gable style window, that is closer to a bay window set up, but without the actually ‘bay’ window.

Is call it an outcrop gable end. As a gable end typically refers to the side of a building that ends with a peak, as appose to a hip roof upper. The gable is preferred for space in the loft over a hip style. Plus it’s simpler and cheaper to build.

[johnbarry]

Wiki says A triangular portion of an end wall between the edges of a sloping roof.

This isn’t at the end it’s at the front (just next to the front door). So it adds confusion as to Gable it has a roof  (as wiki) but it’s within a roof then a window not a wall.

Could it even be a Gable Front.

To add salt it’s a bedroom.

 

 

Cheers
John

[The Duke]

So the front portion of it is called a gable end. Now when you follow the roof back to where it keys into the main roof, that’s called a valley roof or gully in some places.

Really we are just naming the roof shapes and joins. The oppersite to a valley roof is a hip roof.

So you have an out crop that holds a window, which joins to the main house roof by a valley roof, that terminates with a gable end, that holds the window.

That’s about ad close as I could describe it. But anyone in the know, should be able to scetch a decent interpretation of your set up, just from my paragraph.

Does that outcrop have an actual name? Maybe, but I’m not sure. But it’s not a gable front. A gable end is the shape and term action of the building. What orientation it is doesn’t matter. It could house your front door, and it would still be an ‘end’.

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