A to Z of Period Properties

[Jon Maine]

That's another 10 lets ee some more from everyone else

Oh Lord. Right, let's dig deep:-

And finally, I couldn't resist:-

Hyperbolic paraboloid roof a roof which some say looks like a butterfly in elevation. Not a great picture, but here is one:-

http://www.guardian.co.uk/uk/2004/jan/05/arts.artsnews

Oh dear, I'm talking hyperbolics again.....

Ah, Sam Scorer will have to wait til the S section, but what a guy! No-one in Lincoln's (admittedly rather limited) architectural life was ever more the subject of colourful stories. Attending Diocesan Advisory Committee meetings in his motorbike leathers, hosting unbelievably boozy dinner parties, the by-products of which went to build a garden wall of wine bottles, opening his own art gallery in his garage, generally raging about how architecture today had lost its balls, interviewing a very overawed young me for my first ecclesiastical appointment. Happy, happy memories.

What a load of hyperbolics........... :shock: :shock:


Hesitant, what any sane person should be about buying a period property

Half cocked, sadly what to many period property owners have been, I seem to remember the great Middi saying "the trouble is to many people who buy old properties try to make them like new properties when they should just but a new property anyway, or words to that effect.

Happiness, the joy of finishing the major project

Hopefulness, to finish the same

Honour, gained by doing a good job of conservation

Half Wit, the occasional new owner of a period property who wants it to look like a Barret home

Huge expense, what to look forward to whilst working on a period property

Hundreds of years, old most period properties

Hinderance, the lack of grant aid and sometimes constructive advice

Hands on, the best way to be involved with a historic property

Hamstone, a Somerset limestone

Handrail, found around openings

Half newel, found against walls

Hogs back ridge tiles,

Headroom, important in buildings

Hidey hole, such as priest hole

Haunched tenon, This is similar to the basic through tenon, but has a shoulder (haunch) cut on the top of the tenon - and a matching recess cut in the upper end of the mortise. The haunch piece should protrude no more than one quarter along the tenon and should be cut down the same measurement to form a square haunch.

Hand made, many components of old buildings

Honest repair, a good strategy whilst dealing with historic fabric

Home,

Historic-value, Referred to buildings which provide an insight into the culture and lifestyle of moments in history.

Hyundai, the car sat on this historic buildings driveway.



Ok that's another 22, whose turn next :twisted:

 

[Flyfisher]

21 really - I don't think we can let you get away with "Hyundai" just because it's parked on an historic property. Where would that end?!

Happiness, the joy of finishing the major project

Assuming the end can be truly defined. I'd say happiness is the joy of working on a major project, which is just as well otherwise many would never be started. I imagine it would be ecstacy if things are ever truly finished!

 

[Jon Maine]

No you are right in the first instance, happiness is working on the project. Finishing you achieve many things all very admirable but you have lost your project

 

[Feltwell]

Ok that's another 22, whose turn next :twisted:

Are we getting a little teensy-weensy bit competitive here Jon ????? :lol:

 

[DaveBrigg]

HOGGIN - a mixture of clay, sand and gravel used to bed cobbles. Good for drainage, but easliy compacted and so unsuitable for areas which cars may use.

HENRY VIII - Builder of a number of surviving Tudor buildings, such as Pendennis Castle.


He also arguably did more than any other monarch to destroy some of the most impressive architecture of his period.
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HAMPTON COURT - The best preserved Tudor Palace in the country, famous for its skilful brickwork.

 

[Feltwell]

I still can't believe no one has mentioned Hydrate or Hydraulic, given the amount of lime posts and discussion on here.........

 

[Flyfisher]

:lol:
Probably because they are taken for granted.

 

[Gareth Hughes]

Shhhhh! It's actually because none of us has ever really been sure of the difference :shock:

 

[Gareth Hughes]

HAWKSMOOR, NICHOLAS English Baroque architect, and by far the weirdest of the triumvirate (with Wren and Vanbrugh) who dominated English architecture in the years around 1700. Also the subject of a novel by Peter Ackroyd, which (slightly) overdoes the weirdness. When seen in the stone, Hawksmoor's buildings are deeply unsettling, a quality that photographs usually fail to convey. His buildings include several London churches, and the mausoleum at Castle Howard in Yorkshire. All are worth seeking out.

 

[Nigel Watts]

Hawksmoor may also have been responsible for designing parts of buildings attributed to Vanburgh. with whom he worked.

In the early 80s I lived in the East end and regularly passed his St Anne's Limehouse and St George's in the East. The latter is particularly strange (interior lost in WWII unfortunately) but I never tired of them and they are now some of my most favorite buildings. They have a similar power to some of Michealangelo's architectural work.

 

[Jon Maine]

Horns, Extension of a piece of joinery for asthetic reasons as on sash windows

All I can manage today

 

[DaveBrigg]

HAMMERBEAM - a horizontal beam used to hold two structural members (usually walls) together. Often called a tie beam.

HAMMERBEAM ROOF - a medieval method of roof construction which allowed large distances to be spanned without the use of columns. The hammerbeam roof in Westminster Hall is the largest medieval timber roof in Northern Europe. Commissioned in 1393, the timber alone weighs 660 tons, with another 176 tons of lead on top. It spans a width of 68 feet.


HEADSTOP - in churches, a carving at the end of a HOOD MOULDING, which often took the shape of a head.

HORSEBOX PEW - a pew with wooden sides and a lockable door. Often shortened to 'box pew'

HANGING BUTTRESS - a buttress which does not touch the ground, often resting on a corbel instead. Used in vaulted ceilings.

 

[DaveBrigg]

ICE - found in rapidly reducing quantities in the arctic regions, and on the inside of single glazed windows.

 

[DaveBrigg]

INGLENOOK FIREPLACE
In the evolution of fireplace designs, this filled the gap between a central hearth and hole in the roof, and the cast iron fireplace or range that was a product of the industrial revolution. Inglenooks are great for those with an unlimited supply of firewood and a room large enough to take the heat produced, but maximise the drawbacks of other open fires, namely a draughty chimney and tendency to fill the room with smoke if conditions are not quite right.
The word 'inglenook' seems to beat even 'cottage' in its connotations of the romantic past. Every rural pub in Dickens' time has an inglenook, with the old man of the village sat in one corner sucking a clay pipe and drinking a pewter tankard of ale, the flames producing a rosy glow in his cheeks. (The town pubs are packed with cut-throats, rogues and prostitutes). Perhaps it is because of this that so many property crimes are commited against Inglenooks. A quick search online for pictures produced a host of companies which will either put a Tudor Inglenook into a 1950's semi, or 'restore' an original fireplace by hacking off the original plaster to expose the brickwork and then nail up a set of horse brasses so that they match those seen on Disney.

 

[DaveBrigg]

INSURANCE - check that yours covers older buildings; some don't go beyond 1700. Also make sure that rebuild costs take into account the higher than normal expense of replacing like with like.

IONIC - one of the three orders of classical architecture. Ionic columns stand on a base, while the capital (top) is often finished with a scroll design. The column usually has 24 flutes. The Banqueting House in Whitehall has Ionic columns on the ground floor level (below), inspired by renaissance Italy.

The Banqueting House was used not just for feasting; masques were peformed there and it was the ideal venue for the beheading of Charles I. It was designed by...

INIGO JONES (1573 - 1652) The first British architect to bring Italian renaissance architecture to England. He studied Palladio, prompting the later popularity of Palladian architecture based on classical buildings. He also influenced theatre design. Which leads neatly to J (unless Jon sees this thread again, spots what has been missed, and adds more i's than a peacock's tail)

 

[JoceAndChris]

Whatever happened to our noble dictionary, championed so marvellously by DaveBrigg and others?

INTERCOLUMNIATION: The clear space between two columns; it varies considerably in width, and from its proportions the porticoes of the ancients are divided into the following orders: pycnostyle, in which the intercolumniation is equal to one diameter and a half of the shaft of the column; systyle, in which the intercolumniation is equal to two diameters; eustyle, two and a quarter diameters, diastyle, three diameters; arǽostyle, four diameters.

 

[JoceAndChris]

IRONWORK: Of the ironwork of the Middle Ages, connected with architecture, we have not very numerous specimens remaining in this country, although sufficient to shew the care that was bestowed upon it: some of the earliest and most ornamental kind is exhibited in the hinges and scrollwork on doors. In the making of these, considerable skill as well as elegance is displayed, and the junctions of the subordinate branches of the patterns with the larger stems are formed with the greatest neatness and precision; the minute ornaments also which are frequently introduced on them, such as animals' heads, leaves, flowers, &c., are often finished with more care and accuracy than might be expected in such materials; the heads of the nails assume a great variety of form, some projecting like a spike, other rounded, others flat. The handles and knockers (see KNOCKERS) on doors are also made ornamental.

Throughout the period in which Gothic architecture flourished, the appearance of the ironwork that was exposed to view seems to have been duly regarded, and in enriched buildings usually to have been made proportionably ornamental; the heads of the stancheons in windows, and the openings of screens, are often enriched with flowers or other decorations. Monuments are not unfrequently surrounded with iron railings, in the details of which the characteristics of the style of architecture which prevailed at the period of their erection are to be detected. Several ancient doors of iron also remain, consisting of small flat bars crossing each other, and riveted together after the fashion of grilles. One of the most elaborate specimens of the ironwork of the Middle Ages is the tomb of Edward IV, in St.George's Chapel, Windsor,it consists of rich open sceeenwork, with a variety of buttresses, pinnacles, crockets, tabernacles, tracery, and other ornaments, which are introduced in great profusion.

 

[Nigel Watts]

see KNOCKERS

Penners! Where are you when we need you?

 

[Moo]

I do sympathise, Nigel. You just can't get the staff these days.

 

[Penners]

see KNOCKERS

Penners! Where are you when we need you?

I'm afraid I simply feel that my knowledge of that topic is insufficient for me to venture a learned definition.

All I know about them is that they're normally at the front, and can be very useful. Oh - and some are unsuitably and un-necessarily large.