Definition of Vergeboard. Meaning of Vergeboard. Synonyms of Vergeboard

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Definition of Vergeboard

Vergeboard
Vergeboard Verge"board`, n. [Verge + board. Cf. Bargeboard.] (Arch.) The ornament of woodwork upon the gable of a house, used extensively in the 15th century. It was generally suspended from the edge of the projecting roof (see Verge, n., 4), and in position parallel to the gable wall. Called also bargeboard.

Meaning of Vergeboard from wikipedia

- bargus, or barcus, a scaffold, and not from the now obsolete synonym vergeboard. Historically, bargeboards are sometimes moulded only or carved, but as...
- Anne style, with a square tower on the southwest corner and an elaborate vergeboard in the north gable. The porch posts, brackets, and spindles reflect the...
- built in 1874 in a vernacular Gothic Revival style. It has a gingerbread vergeboard. It was expanded in 1879 and additionally modified during 1886–1899. It...
- decorative cut shingles, and the gables are decorated with Stick-style vergeboard elements. Below the eaves hangs a decorative wave-patterned valance. The...
- Revival styling in East Somerville. The house has a jigsaw-cut foliate vergeboard on its gable. It has a three-bay front facade, with a front-facing gable...
- with brackets, pendants, and vergeboards resembling icicles. The roof gable ends on the house contain similar lacy vergeboards. "National Register Information...
- rear wing. The building features embellished gable ends with decorative vergeboards, king post trusses, and brackets. It was listed on the National Register...
- The house is stylistically Gothic Revival in character, with decorative vergeboard, window hoods, and ogee brackets. The house's interior has an unusual...
- taller section frames the main entrance, and has elaborate hand-carved vergeboard decoration. On either side of this projecting section are a pair of gabled...
- for having three steeply pitched gable dormers in front, decorated with vergeboard, and for a small mansard-roofed tower added to the rear in the 1870s....