5: victorian villages - The Royal Borough of Windsor and Maidenhead

GLOSSARY OF TERMS
Term
‘Ancient Lights’
Ashlar
Bay window
Blockwork
Built form
‘Bull nose’ windows
Burgage plots
Corinthian
Crucks
Cupola
Density
Definition
Used on older buildings to denote an historic easement
for windows/natural light which should not be breached
by taller development.
Masonry of large blocks wrought to even faces and
square edges.
Window of one or more storeys projecting from the
face of a building. [Canted = straight front and angles
sides; Bow = curved; Oriel = rests on brackets and
starts above ground level).
Use of large blocks for walling as opposed to bricks.
Blocks with a decorative finish are often referred to as
‘fair face’ blockwork.
The characteristic nature of built development.
Circular feature windows, often seen on arts and
crafts/’garden city’ or garden suburb houses of the pre
war period.
Enclosed plots or divisions of manorial open fields
within the medieval Open Field System.
One of the Graeco classical architectural orders, with
columns defined by elaborately carved ‘acanthus’ heads.
Of timber framed buildings: large principal timbers used
to form an ‘A frame’ and to create the structural
integrity in earlier medieval timber framed buildings
A small dome on a circular or polygonal base crowning
a roof or turret. Often covered with lead flashing or
weathered copper sheet.
The concentration of building units within a certain area
(PPS 3 indicates that 30 dwellings per hectare (dph) net
should be used as a national indicative minimum). NB
net density is calculated by including only those site areas
which will be developed for housing and directly associated
uses, including access roads within the site, private garden
space, car parking areas, incidental open space and
landscaping and children’s play areas, where these are
provided, PPS3.)