• porch: An open or enclosed gallery or room on the outside of a building.
• ander: Porch, vestibule, or lobby. 2. Space between the top of a wall and the sloping roof.
• andor: Porch, vestibule, or lobby. 2. Space between the top of a wall and the sloping roof.
• anticum: A porch of a front entrance, as distinguished from posticum, a porch of a rear entrance.
• carriage porch: A shelter over an entrance, large enough to permit the passage of a carriage or motor car.
• Classical porch: A porch with Classical features, derived from the portico.
• colonnaded porch: A covered walk or porch supported by columns or pillars.
• Dutch stoep: A small wooden porch, covered by a cantilevered hood, with a wood bench on both sides. Also see Dutch stoep.
• enclosed porch: A porch that is enclosed by a wall, as opposed to an open or screened-in porch.
• end-wall porch: May be a primary or secondary entrance, depending upon siting and building form. Covers most of the end wall and clearly is an extension of the main house.
• entry porch: A shallow porch that is an integral part of the façade.
• opisthodomus: Recessed porch or epinaos at the rear of a Greek temple, sometimes enclosed with bronze grilles and used as a treasury. If a porch, it balances the pronaos at the other end.
• gabled porch: A porch with gabled form, often serving as an entrance to a building.
• galerie: A French style of porch that often extended around at least three sides of the house and often was raised off the ground to the second-story level. It was supported by the house’s roof which extended beyond the house walls thus making the galerie intrinsic to the original house construction.
• mukhashala: An assembly porch of a temple in northern India; also called a jagamohan.
• ramada: Spanish for an arbor or open porch.
• outporch: A porch or outer vestibule; a term having no special architectural significance.
• portales: Long, covered porches facing a placita or plaza.
• porte cochere: A large covered entrance porch through which vehicles can drive and passengers can alight from a vehicle and enter a building
• porte cochère: A covered entrance for coaches or vehicles, usually attached to the side elevation of a building.
• porte-cochere: A covered entrance over a driveway
• porte-cochère: A covered entrance for coaches or vehicles, usually attached to the side elevation of a building.
• projecting porch: A porch that derives from the portico, which may account for the formality.
• rear porch: A porch to the rear of a building.
• screened-in porch: A porch enclosed with screen to allow for outdoor seating while keeping insects out.
• side-wall-porch: Also see end-wall porch.
• sleeping porch: A porch that is open allowing breezes, which may be screen or un-screened, and is conducive to sleeping in.
• two-story porch: A porch with levels on two separate stories.
• wind porch: A small vestibule, often temporary, planned to allow the opening of the outer doors of a building without admitting much cold air.
• wraparound porch: A porch that is constructed so as to be continuous from one side of a building to another.
• aethousa: The portico on the sunny side of the court of a Greek dwelling. 2. The place in an ancient Greek dwelling where strangers slept.
• anteportico: An outer porch or a portico in front of the main portico in a classical temple.
• bhadra: In Hindu architecture, a type of portico or building; a general term for a ratha.
• colossal portico: A columned projection before the entrance to a temple or similar building that dominates the front of the building.
• cyrtostyle: A projecting, curved portico, usually semicircular, having columns.
• cyrto-style: A circular projecting portico with columns.
• double portico: A projecting two-story porch with columns and a pediment.
• hilammar: A portico having a roof supported by columns, leading to the sanctuary of a Hittite temple.
• lesche: In ancient Greece, a public portico, clubhouse, or the like, frequented by the people for conversation or the hearing of news; such buildings were numerous in Greek cities, and their walls often were decorated by celebrated painters.
• monumental portico: A columned projection before the entrance to a temple or similar building that dominates the front of the building.
• pedimented portico: A columned projection before the entrance to a temple or similar building surmounted by a pediment.
• piache: A covered arched walk, or portico.
• portico: A place for walking under shelter. The word is usually applied to the columned projection before the entrance to a temple or similar building. Porticos of this kind are described according to the number of frontal columns viz. Tetrastyle (4), Hexastyle (6), Octastyle (8), Decastyle (10) and Dodecastyle (12). Where there are only two columns between pilasters or antae the expression used is Distyle in Antis.
• pronaos: The portico of a temple in classical architecture, or the space in front of the cella.
• pronaus: Same as pronaos.
• prostoon: Also see portico.
• Roman Doric portico: A projection before the entrance to a building with columns of the Doric order, topped by an entablature and pediment.
• sigma: A semicircular portico.
• sotto portico: A covered public way beneath the overhanging upper story and behind the columns of a façade.
• stoa: In ancient Greek architecture, a portico or cloister.
• two-story portico: A projecting two-story porch with columns and a pediment.
• zystos: Among the ancients, a portico or aisle of unusual length, commonly used for gymnastic exercises.
• porticus: Entrance-porch of a church. 2. Church apse. 3. Structure over a medieval tomb (also called porticulus). 4. Long covered ambulatory with a roof carried on colonnades, sometimes attached to a building, and sometimes a separate structure. 5. Room or side-chapel projecting from the nave of a church entered through arches in the nave-walls… 5. Arched arbor (sometimes called portique) or garden-walk under a pergola. 7. As portico.
• shingle-covered porch posts: Porch posts, often squared, covered in shingles.
• cutaway porch: A porch which results when a portion of a building is cut out, so that the porch is recessed under the main roof. Frequently a proportion of the width of the façade.
• alinda: In the architecture of India, a verandah.
• dalan: In Persian and Indian architecture, a veranda, or sometimes a more stately reception hall, more or less open to the weather, with a roof carried on columns, or the like.
• dallan: In Persian and Indian architecture, a veranda, or sometimes a more stately reception hall, more or less open to the weather, with a roof carried on columns, or the like.
• engawa: A veranda-like area beneath the eaves of a traditional Japanese building, constructed of finely finished boards; may be on one or all four sides of the building; its exterior side may be fitted with sliding doors.
• maq’ad: In the Near East, an arched veranda or loggia overlooking the courtyard of a palace or house.
• nure-yen: In traditional Japanese architecture, a veranda unprotected by an amado or outside wall.
• stoep: Dutch or South-African verandah.
• veranda: An open, roofed porch, usually enclosed on the outside by a railing or balustrade, and often wrapping around two or more (or all of the) sides of a building.
• verandah: A large, open porch, usually roofed and partly enclosed, as by a railing, often extending across the front and sides of a house.
• veranda-like porch: A large, open porch, usually roofed and partly enclosed, as by a railing, often extending across the front and sides of a house.

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