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
