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What Is a Bargeboard? What Is a Vergeboard?

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Gable with vergeboards

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Definition:

Bargeboards -- also called vergeboards -- hang from the projecting end of a roof. Bargeboards are often elaborately carved and ornamented. Homes in the Carpenter Gothic style have highly ornamented bargeboards.

Also Known As:

fly rafters, gable rafters, gableboards, barge rafters

Examples:

"The greater number of bargeboards in this district are moulded." - Ralph Nevill, Old Cottage & Domestic Architecture in South-west Surrey (1889), p. 35

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