Because Freddy said so....

[tony1851]

Oh dear!

Doubtless a quality job with regard to construction and finish, but that barge-board..................................

Architect/plan-drawer needs to have his scale rule wrapped across his knuckles - hard.

 

[noseall]

Oh dear!

Doubtless a quality job with regard to construction and finish, but that barge-board..................................

I know!
The alternative would have been worse. It would have meant building part of the sloping gable masonry over the back door lintel. This would have looked really odd.

By doing what I did by off setting of the plane of the barge back from the plane of the fascia etc it makes an obvious distraction rather than trying to force something work.

Symmetery was never an option. I felt that having a weird bit of gable masonry jutting out over that back door would have looked horrific especially with hideous yellow bricks.

 

[WabbitPoo]

Horrible - not your fault - but horrible, none-the-less

 

[tony1851]

Symmetery was never an option.

What the 'Architect' should have done in that case is to accept this, and design something which is deliberately and concsiously a-symmetrical, eg by omitting the gable altogether.

As it is, it looks as though he's tried as hard as humanly possible to make it symmetrical, but only just failed at the last hurdle............dreadful.

 

[noseall]

It is a rear elevation extension - not the principal elevation so not the end of the world.

I'll build something really offensive around the back to take your eye away from the faux-pas. Any ideas?

 

[freddiemercurystwin]

How about a full width dormer?

 

[noseall]

How about a full width dormer?

Perfect. I might add a faded grey SVP up the front of it along with a plethora of crazy 110mm bends to give the impression that the dormer was a poorly thought out en-suite.