A TYPOLOGY OF SIMPLE DOMESTIC FORMS
Franco Frescura
DEFINITIONS
1. Rectangular plan cottage with ridge and gable roof.
2. Rectangular plan cottage with ridge and parapet gable roof.
3. Rectangular plan late settler cottage with ridge and parapet gable roof.
4. Rectangular plan early settler cottage with ridge and parapet gable roof, chimney set in gable wall.
5. Rectangular plan cottage with ridge and ornate curvilinear parapet gable roof.
6. Extended rectangular plan cottage with ridge and parapet gable roof with central gable to front.
7. Rectangular plan cottage with ridge and hipped roof. Sometimes also referred to as a "longhouse" when the entrance is located on the eaves or long end.
8. Rectangular plan cottage with short ridge and hipped roof.
9. Rectangular plan cottage with hipped and gabled roof, ventilation gablets on hip ends.
10. Rectangular plan cottage with pyramidal roof.
11. Square plan cottage with pyramidal roof.
12. Rectangular plan cottage with dual pitched roof. This may also be hipped. Called a mansard roof when the lower slope is steep. Also called a gambrel roof.
13. Rectangular plan cottage with gabled ridge and valley roof. Also known as a "M" roof, a double roof or parallel gables.
14. Rectangular plan cottage with gabled ridge and valley roof, also known as a "M" roof, with verandah running full length of front gable facade.
15. Rectangular plan cottage with ridge and gable roof, lean-to extension to rear.
16. Rectangular plan cottage with lean-to verandah running full length of eaves facade.
17. Rectangular plan two storey structure with ridge and gable roof.
18. Rectangular plan two storey structure with ridge and gable roof, single storey lean-to verandah running full length of gable facade.
19. Rectangular plan two storey structure with ridge and gable roof, single storey lean-to verandah running full length of eaves facade.
20. Rectangular plan two storey structure with ridge and gable roof, two storey lean-to verandah running full length of eaves facade.
21. Rectangular plan two storey structure with ridge and hipped roof.
22. Rectangular plan two storey structure with flat parapet roof, single storey lean-to verandah running full length of parapet facade.
23. Rectangular plan two storey structure with ridge and hipped roof masked by a raised parapet on two sides.
24. Square plan cottage with pyramidal roof and ridge and gable roof wings extended asymmetrically from opposite corners.
25. Rectangular plan flat roofed cottage with three parapet walls and fire-place protruding from side parapet wall.
26 Rectangular plan flat roofed cottage with three parapet walls and fire-place protruding from side parapet wall and alongside a lateral entry.
27. Rectangular plan flat roofed cottage with three parapet walls and fire-place protruding from rear or eaves wall.
28. L-Plan cottage with ridge and gable roof. Also known as a cross hipped roof.
29. Rectangular plan cottage with ridge and hipped roof, asymmetrical ridge and gable roofed wing.
30. Rectangular plan cottage with ridge and hipped roof, asymmetrical ridge and gable roofed wing, lean-to verandah running the remaining length of the facade.
31. Rectangular plan cottage with ridge and hipped roof, asymmetrical ridge and gable roofed wing and lean-to corner verandah.
32. T-Plan cottage with ridge and gable roof. Also known as a cross-gabled roof.
33. Rectangular plan cottage with asymmetrical ridge and gable roof. Also known as a saltbox roof.
34. Square plan cottage with hopper roof.
35. Square plan cottage with pyramidal roof and lean-to verandah running the full perimeter of the building.
36. Square plan cottage with pyramidal roof and lean-to verandah running the length of three sides of the building.
37. Square plan cottage with pyramidal roof and lean-to verandah running the length of two sides of the building.
38. Rectangular plan cottage with lean-to roof.
39. Rectangular plan cottage with lean-to roof and front parapet wall.
40. Rectangular plan cottage with lean-to roof and parapet walls on three sides.
41. Rectangular plan cottage with ridge and gable roof, lean-to roofed parapet wings on either gable end.
42. Rectangular plan cottage with wolve-end or "leg-of-mutton" gables, either squared or rounded. Also known as a helmet roof or a hip-on-gable roof.
43. Rectangular plan cottage with ridge and gable roof and eyebrow dormer window.
44. Rectangular plan cottage with ridge and gable roof and dormer window.
45. Rectangular plan cottage with flat and gable roof.
46. Semi-detatched square plan cottage with ridge and gable roof.
47. Rowhouse cottages with ridge and gable roof.
48. Stepped terraced rowhouse cottages with ridge and gable roof.
49. L-Plan corner building with splayed corner.
50. Rectangular plan cottage with splayed corner.
51. Rectangular plan cottage with gable roof cross wing.
52. Square plan cottage with a front gabled ridge and valley roof, also known as a "M" roof, united at the rear by a ridge and hipped roof span. The roof thus formed appears to conform to a U-plan.
53. Elongated rectangular plan cottage with symmetrical twin ridge and gable roofed wings extending to the front.
POSTSCRIPT
This typology was developed in the context of courses I have delivered to a number of post graduate student groups and historical amateur bodies on the methodology of architectural surveying and conservation. The forms reflected here have been reduced to a simple formula as a means of facilitating field documentation. It has never been published except in the form of student handouts.