A to Z of Period Properties

[FamilyWiggs]

LIVESTOCK - an obsession that often goes hand in hand with period property ownership. In extreme cases, some suffers have been known to spend more on decorating their chicken houses than on their main residence.

 

[LadyArowana]

LUXURY SHED, something to spend money on once the chicken coop has been decorated.

 

[LadyArowana]

Anyone have any more for "L" or should we move on to "M"?

 

[MdB]

LOLLYPOP - What you get when you've finished the "L"s and need to move onto the "M"s.

 

[Feltwell]

MITHER - a Northern expression, this indicates what your partner does to you if you don't complete that job that they want doing.

 

[Penners]

MESSY: Any part of the house in which I have been working for more than 90 seconds (according to you-know-who).

 

[Penners]

MOTHER-IN-LAW: Highly qualified and knowledgeable advisor on any and all aspects of personal relationships, property maintenance, driving, childcare, hygiene, interior design, gardening, handicrafts, career advancement, cookery, holiday destinations...... etc. ad nauseam.

 

[Flyfisher]

MADNESS: An essential part of the mental make-up of any prospective period property owner and a defining characteristic of those people that progress to actual ownership.

Not to be confused with MADNESS, the British popular beat combo of the 1980s that popularised the heavily-accented offbeat musical form known as ska.

 

[Penners]

MONEY: a commodity consumed in literally limitless quantities by all period properties.

 

[FamilyWiggs]

MASOCHIST - owner of a period property. More properly defined as someone who having owned a period property, buys another before they die.

 

[Penners]

MASOCHIST - owner of a period property. More properly defined as someone who having owned a period property, buys another before they die.

(See also SADIST: one who buys a wreck of a period property just before they die, and bequeaths it to their family.)

 

[worms]

MUNTIN: aka glazing bar

At the risk of bringing this thread back to its original intention!

 

[MdB]

MOAT - A device for extracting money from the government ...

(see also - DUCK HOUSE)

 

[LadyArowana]

MANSARD, roof with each face having two angles of slope.

MASON MARK, symbol carved on a stone identifying the mason responsible, not to be confused with graffiti.

MORTGAGE, document securing a loan against property.

 

[Flyfisher]

Following on the spirit of worms' post (in both senses):

MULLION: vertical structural component of a window opening.

 

[Penners]

Oh well, if worms wants to be boring about it...

MALLET: a type of hammer designed to strike an impact without causing damage to the struck surface. The head can be made from a variety of materials - wood, leather, plastic, copper and lead are probably the most commonly used.

 

[JoceAndChris]

I want to be boring too.

MACHICOLATIONS: A row of small corbeled arches, looking a little like jagged teeth, used as an ornamental architectural feature.


( http://www.google.co.uk/imgres?imgurl=http://sites.scran.ac.uk/ada/documents/images/ada01gj_l.jpg&imgrefurl=http://sites.scran.ac.uk/ada/documents/castle_style/alnwick/lionbridge.htm&usg=__87Zs2LqQUbKxunSy6cKTXS9Cz9M=&h=768&w=512&sz=30&hl=en&start=15&um=1&itbs=1&tbnid=a7KdMpK5ycWs_M:&tbnh=142&tbnw=95&prev=/images%3Fq%3Dmachicolations%26um%3D1%26hl%3Den%26sa%3DN%26tbs%3Disch:1 )
or

A projecting gallery at the top of a castle wall, supported by a row of corbeled arches and having openings in the floor through which stones and boiling liquids could be dropped on attackers.

http://wpcontent.answers.com/wikipedia/commons/thumb/c/c5/Pierrefonds5.jpg/220px-Pierrefonds5.jpg

 

[LadyArowana]

MACHICOLATIONS: A row of small corbeled arches, looking a little like jagged teeth, used as an ornamental architectural feature.

That really should be a sort of coffee, as in "I'll have a grande MACHICOLATIO "

OK and back to being boring.....

MERLON solid part of battlemented parapet.

 

[JoceAndChris]

Murder hole/ meurtrière : Very similar to the kind of machicolations that allowed boiling oil to be poured or arrows to be rained down, but it seems that a murder hole will be in the middle of a ceiling whereas a machicolation will be in the wall.

Here's an English meurtrière: http://www.carewcastle.com/english/castle_tour/images/tour34.jpg

 

[Penners]

MACHICOLATIONS: A row of small corbeled arches, looking a little like jagged teeth, used as an ornamental architectural feature.

Oh, come on, Joce! You made that up!