bargecouple

Isaac Kremer/ September 9, 2018/ / 0 comments

One of the pair of rafters which carry that part of a gable roof which projects beyond the gable wall. These rafters must be carried by projecting horizontal timbers, and these timbers may be the roof plates, the ridgepole, and the purlines, or they may be separate pieces projecting horizontally and supported from beneath by brackets. The two rafters of the couple-close may be chamfered, carved, or the like, as is often done in German wooden buildings, or they may be concealed by the bargeboards. (Sturgis, 1900)

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