Could someone please tell me what the decorative eaves thing is called in this picture. Is it quite expensive to have if I am renovating my property. Does it need to be shown on my front elevation plans for planning permission?
Cheaper to make your own, if you have the time and inclination. You could add them for the planning app but you wouldn't need PP to add them so why bother.
The original justification for having deep- and widely-projecting eaves was so as to form a wide, lead-lined gutter. They were therefore particularly appropriate for large late eighteenth and nineteenth century houses.
But when these features are combined with conventional half-round gutters, as in the pic, they become superfluous.
The original justification for having deep- and widely-projecting eaves was so as to form a wide, lead-lined gutter. They were therefore particularly appropriate for large late eighteenth and nineteenth century houses.
But when these features are combined with conventional half-round gutters, as in the pic, they become superfluous.
That pretty picture is a repro Queen Anne style so its more or less in keeping with a high status building. Around here in Wensleydale, they were fitted to carry wooden half round gutters. Just blocks of limestone on edge sticking out of the wall, - not very high status buildings!, just up from no gutters. I guess they disappeared when cheap Victorian cast gutters were available.
They were probablely derived by carving the ends of the purlins in Elizabethan times, then later, just added as a bit of bling.
Frank
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