Vernacular Building Glossary - Terms A

A
- Abutment
- Aisle
- Arch
- Arch brace
- Arris
- Ashlar piece
- Assembly mark
- Assembly, normal
  - Reversed assembly
- Axial beam
B
- Baluster
  - Balustrade
  - Handrail
  - Turned baluster
  - Moulded baluster
  - Flat baluster
- Barge boards
- Batten
- Base cruck
- Bay
  - Two-bay hall
  - Half-bay
  - Smoke-bay
- Bead
- Beam
  - Anchor beam
  - Applied beam
  - Axial beam
  - Ceiling beam
  - Girding beam
  - Half beam
  - Head beam
  - Strainer beam
  - Tiebeam
  - Transverse beam
- Birdsmouth
- Blade
- Block
- Bowtell
- Box-frame
  - Box-framed
- Brace
  - Downward brace
  - Upward brace
  - Arch brace
  - Concealed brace
  - Corner brace
  - Cross braces
  - Cusped brace
  - Downward brace
  - Knee brace
  - corner brace
  - Ogee brace
  - Parallel braces
  - Passing brace
  - Quatrefoil bracing
  - Rafter brace
  - Ridge brace
  - Scissor brace
  - Sling brace
  - Stud Brace
  - Upward brace
  - Windbrace
  - Passing windbrace
- Bracket
  - Integral bracket
- Brattishing
- Bressumer
  - jetty bressumer
- Bridle
- Butt
  - Bridled butt
  - Butt joint
  - Sallied butt
  - Squinted butt
  - Undersquinted butt
  - Vertical butt
- Buttress Shaft
- Byre
C
- Cambered
- Canopy
- Carpenter's mark
- Cavetto
- Catslide
- Cell
  - Single-cell plan
  - Two-cell plan
  - Three-cell plan
- Chamfer
  - Steep chamfer
  - Hollow chamfer
  - Sunk chamfer
- Chamfer stop
- Chase
- Chimney stack positions
  - Axial stack
  - Lateral stack
  - Gable stack
- Clam stave and daub
- Clamp
- Clapboards
- Cleat
- Close studding
- Collar
  - Extended collar
  - Interrupted Collar
  - Collar plate
  - Collar purlin
- Console
- Cornice
- Couple
- Coving
- Cranked
- Cross passage
- Crown post
  - Crown plate
  - Crown strut
- Cruck
  - Cruck truss
  - Cruck-framed
  - Base Cruck
  - End cruck
  - Jointed cruck
  - Raised cruck
  - Raised base cruck
  - Two-tier cruck
  - Upper cruck
- Cusp
- Cyma
D
- Dais
  - Dais beam
  - Dais canopy
- Daub
- Door
- Doorway
- Dormer
  - Dormer window
- Dovetail
- Dragon beam
  - Dragon tie
- Draw bar
E
- Edge
- End
  - Upper (high) end
  - Lower end
- Entry
- Entry, refined and simple
F
- Face
- Fascia
- Finial
- Flying
- Framing
- Fireplace, framed
G
- Gable
  - Gable, jettied
- Gablet
- Gunstock
- Ground sill
H
- Hall
  - Open hall
  - Open-hall house
- Halving
- Hammer beam
  - False hammer beam
  - Hammer post
- Handrail
- Harr-hung
- Haunch, diminished
- Head
- Hearth, open
- Heck
- Hip
- Hole
- Hood
J
- Jack
- Jamb
- Jetty
- Joggled (joint)
- Joint
- Joist
- Jowl
K
- Key
- King pendant
- King post
- Knee brace
- Knee principal
L
- Lap joint
- Lath
- Ledge
- Light
- Lintel
- Lobby
  - Distribution lobby
  - Lobby entry
- Longhouse
- Louvre
  - Louvred opening
M
- Mitre
- Mortice
- Moulding
- Mud and stud
- Mullion
  - Diamond mullion
  - King mullion
- Muntin
N
- Newel post
- Nosing
O
- Open hearth
- Oriel
- Outshut
  - End-outshut
P
- Packing piece
- Pad
- Padstone
- Panel
  - Decorative panelling
- Passage
- Peg
- Pendant
  - King pendant
- Pentice
- Plank
  - Plank-walling
- Plan
- Plate
- Post
- Post and pan
- Post and truss
- Posthole construction
- Principal
  - Principal Rafter (general)
  - Principal Rafter (precise)
- Purlin
Q
- Queen post
R
- Rafter
- Rafter Hole
- Rail
  - Mid rail
- Rebate
- Ridge Piece
- Riser
- Roof
S
- Saddle
- Scantling
- Scarf
- Scissor
- Scotch
- Scribed joint
- Shaft
- Shoulder
- Shutter
  - shutter bar
  - Sliding shutters
  - Shutter rails
- Side (of a timber)
- Sill beam
  - Interrupted sill
  - Sill wall
- Sling
- Smoke hood
- Soffit
- Solar
- Sole piece
- Soulace
- Spandrel
  - Spandrel strut
- Spere
  - Spere truss
- Splat Baluster
- Splay
- Sprocket
- Spur
- Stair
  - Straight flight
  - Winder staircase
  - Newel staircase
  - Winder
  - Dog-leg staircase
  - Half landing
  - Well staircase
  - Open well
  - Quarter landing
  - Closed well
- Stair turret
- Stave
  - Interweaving rods
  - Stave-built wall
- Stile
- Stop
- Storeyed construction
- Strainer beam
- String
  - Closed string
  - Open string
- Strut
  - Crown strut
  - King strut
  - Princess Strut
  - Queen strut
  - Raking struts
  - Rafter struts
  - Spandrel strut
- Stud
  - Close studding
  - Herringbone studding
  - Cruck stud
  - Stud and panel
- Stylobate
T
- Table
- Template
- Tenon
- Tiebeam
- Tongue
- Transom
- Tread
  - Nosing
  - Solid tread
- Trench
- Trimmer
  - Trimmer Joist
- Truss
U
- Unit
- Unit system
- Upstand
W
- Wall plate
- Wall post
- Waney edge
- Wattling
  - Under-thatch wattling
- Wealden house
  - Flying wall plate
  - Single-ended Wealden
- Weatherboarding
  - Weatherboards
  - Clapboards
- Wicket
- Windbrace
- Winder
- Window
- Wing
  - Hall-and-crosswing plan
Y
- Yoke

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