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The cover of any building including the roofing see Roofing and all the materials and construction necessary to carry and maintain the same upon the walls or other uprights In the case of a building with vaulted ceilings protected by an outer roof some writers call the vault the roof and the outer protection the roof mask It is better however to consider the vault as the ceiling only in cases where it has farther covering...
Curb roof
A roof having a double slope or composed on each side of two parts which have unequal inclination a gambrel roof...
Mansard roof
A hipped curb roof that is a roof having on all sides two slopes the lower one being steeper than the upper one...
Hip roofed
Having a hip roof...
Roofing
The act of covering with a roof...
Building
Building, defined by Lord Esher in Moir v. Williams, (1892) 1 QB 270, as an inclosure of brick or stone covered by a roof, and said by Park, J., in R. v. Gregory, (1833) 5 B. & Ad. At p. 561, not to include a wall; but the definition depends on circumstances, and may include a reservoir, Moran v. Marsland, (1909) 1 KB 744. The London Building Act, 1930 (20 & 21 Geo. 5, c. clviii.), has no definition. The term 'new building' was defined in s. 23 of the (English) Public Health Acts Amendment Act,1907 (c. 53) (now repealed); and see also Southend-on-Sea Corporation v. Archer, (1901) 70 LJ KB 328; South Shields Corporation v. Wilson, (1901) 84 LT 267. An old railway carriage will be a 'new building' if the interior arrangements are altered, Hanrahan v. Leigh Urban Council, (1909) 2 KB 257. An advertisement hoarding is a building within a restrictive covenant, Nussey v. Provincial Bill Posting Co., (1909) 1 Ch 734; Stevens v. Willing & Co. Ltd., 1929 WN 53. See also Paddington Corporation v...
Bungalow
Bungalow. Generally, a building on a single, or ground floor, the roof meeting the walls enclosing that floor, either with or without gables, but the space under the roof may be utilised; see Ward v. Paterson, (1929) 2 Ch 396 (restrictive covenant).Bungalow, is a building of which the walls, with the exception of any gables, are no higher than the ground floor, and of which the roof starts at a point substantially not higher than the top of the wall of the ground floor, regardless of the manner in which the space left in the roof is used, Halsbury's Laws of England, Vol. 4(2), 4th Edn., Para 335, p. 299; Ward v. Paterson, (1929) 2 Ch 396.Means primarily a one storey building, Halsbury's Laws of England, Vol. 4(2), 4th Edn., Para 335, p. 299; Clothier v. Snell, (1966) 198 Estates Gazette 27....
Dormer
A window pierced in a roof and so set as to be vertical while the roof slopes away from it Also the gablet or houselike structure in which it is contained...
Eaves
The edges or lower borders of the roof of a building which overhang the walls and cast off the water that falls on the roof...
gabled
furnished or constructed with a gable of a house or roof as a gabled roof Opposite of ungabled...
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