abacus
abutment
acanthus
Adam
addorsed
aedicule
affronted
aisle
alcove
altar-piece
apron
apse
Arabesque
arcade
arch
architrave
Art Deco
Art Nouveau
artificial stone
Arts and Crafts
ashlar
astragal
astylar
atrium
balconette
baluster
balustrade
barge-board
Baroque
barrel vault
bas-relief
bay
bay window
bead
bead and read
beam
Beaux Arts
bed-mould
belfry
bell-cote
belvedere
blind
blocked
bolection moulding
bond
boss
bottom rail
brace
bracket
brick
broken pediment
Brutalism
buckling
bulges
bull’s eye window
buttress
Byzantine
campanile
capital
casement window
cast iron fractures
catslide roof
chancel
cill
cinquefoil
circus
cladding
clapboard
Classical
Classical Orders
clay tiles
cleaning of stone
clerestory
cloister
coade stone
cob
collar beam
collar purlin
common rafter
concrete
corbel
Corinthian order
cornice
coursed
coursed rubble
coursed stone
cracks
crenellation
crescent
crest-tile
cross-wing
crown
crown-post
cruck blade
crypt
cupola
curtain wall
cusp
cyma recta
cyma reversa
damp
death watch beetle
Decorated order
dentils
diocletain window
doors
Doric order
drip stone
dry rot
dutch gable
Early English
eaves
Edwardian
egg and dart
elevation
Elizabethan
entablature
facade
facadism
faience
fan-light
fascia
fenestration
fielded panel
fillet
finial
fluting
flying buttress
foil decoration
frieze
frontispiece
furniture beetle
gable
gazebo
glazing bar
Gothic
Gothic revival
Greek revival
hammerbeam
hammer-post
hipped roof
hood mould
impost
interlocking tiles
International style
Ionic
Jacobean
jamb
jetty
keystone
king-post
kneeler
lancet window
lantern
lead
leaks
lime
lintel
lock rail
mansard roof
meeting rail
metal corrosion
mid-18th century sliding sash window
Modernism
moulding
mullion
muntins
ogee curve
order
ovolo
Palladianism
panels
pantiles
paviours
pedestal
pediment
Perpendicular
pilaster
pillar
pilloti
plinth
pointing
polychromy
porte-cochere
portico
Post-Modernism
principal rafter
purlin
purlins
Queen Anne Style
queen-post
rafter
rafters
Renaissance
rib
ridge
riser
Romanesque
roof construction
rose window
rubble
rust
sash box
Saxon
scotia
shop fronts
sill
slate
stile
stiles
stone
string course
strut
superimposed orders
terracotta
thatch
tie-beam
tile-hanging
timber frame
top rail
torus
tracery
transom
tread
truss
Tuscan
vault
Venetian window
Victorian
volute
voussoir
wall-plate
wattle and daub
weatherboard
wet rot
windows
Sources Cited
Pendlebury, John and Tim Townshend. An Illustrated Glossary of Architectural and Constructional Terms: For Students and Newly Qualified Planner in Practice. Newcastle upon Tyne, United Kingdom: University of Newcastle, 1998.
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