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  • A park full of merry hay-makers; gay red and blue waggons; stalwart horses switching off the flies; dark avenues of tall elms; groups of abele, 'tossing their whispering silver to the sun'; and amid them the house, -- a great square red-brick mass, made light and cheerful though by quoins and windows of white Sarsden stone, with high peaked French roofs, broken by louvres and dormers, haunted by a thousand swallows and starlings. The Beauties of Nature and the Wonders of the World We Live In
  • After repairing and replacing key house elements like windows and siding, they inserted a dormer, a porch, and a large, elegant steel-and-glass bifold door.
  • The house rose three stories, the third being a steep roof with five dormer windows across. Dark Secrets 2: No Time to Die the Deep End of Fear
  • It was typically Scottish, with its dormer windows, wooden staircase and whitewashed walls.
  • All she needs is the rocking chair in that dormer window where she sits all day long, crocheting and watching the neighbors.
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  • On the ground floor of the entrance facade, a shallow porch with four columns links the two bay windows, and a steep mansard roof with dormer windows is crowned by a grand octagonal cupola.
  • A more ambitious neighbor raised the roof, added dormers, expanded the garage to include space for three cars, and installed a fence to contain their new puppy.
  • The three bed dormer detached bungalow provides many extras and is within easy reach of the town centre.
  • This one has a gambrel roof, wide shed roof dormers, and a shed roof over the porch.
  • Sisko had always loved the look of the beautiful old building, with its wide, columned porch on the first floor, the ornate railing enclosing the upstairs porch, the detailed brackets beneath the eaves, the paired dormers rising from the red-tiled roof. Star Trek: Typhon Pact: Rough Beasts of Empire
  • The larger has a dormer window overlooking the rear garden, and the other is used for storage.
  • We are anxious to have individual houses, detached bungalows or dormers.
  • The bright master bedroom has a dormer window to the front and a second window to the side.
  • Other distinctive features are the blank panels and the pedimented dormers and the swooping gable ends. Times, Sunday Times
  • Stone quoins emphasise the corners and the central triangular pediment is set against a hipped roof with dormers. Times, Sunday Times
  • The dual aspect master bedroom has a dormer window overlooking the front garden and a Velux window to the rear.
  • As your ship passes three- and four-story Dutch colonial buildings with steep, gabled tile roofs and small dormer windows, you spot streets, too narrow for autos, lined with shops.
  • The gabled roofs, dormers, double-hung windows, and wood-simulating concrete lap siding, offer a residential image in contrast with the surrounding industrial masonry buildings.
  • I used to pretend I was a lighthouse keeper and the dormer was my lighthouse, and I’d look out for boats about to crash on our ront lawn, which I pretended was a treacherous beach. When Lightning Strikes
  • Al Pacino, with a superbly restrained and world-weary performance, plays Will Dormer, a detective who has come to Alaska to help the local police solve the violent death of a teenage girl.
  • The company has applied to build 12 two-bedroom duplex apartments in a two-storey plus dormer block, as well as a public house in a two-storey plus dormer building with over basement car parking.
  • A single dormer window let in light, and on the wall her clothes hung from hooks.
  • Eventually we all retired and Sue set herself very primly into one of the twin beds in our dormered room. GOTHIC PURSUIT
  • Much of the lower building work is to be reconstructed in stone ashlar with some units to include dormer, full-length windows and balconies.
  • Daylight enters through large dormers, supplemented by electric light from architect-designed pendant fixtures.
  • Restoring dormer windows in the attic costs $1,200 a piece. Va. couple puts up for sale house where George Washington slept
  • Check flashings at valleys, chimneys, dormers, vent pipes, and other roofing protrusions.
  • Eight dormer * ndows jutted out of the sloped ceil - The secret sense
  • The applicant sought to retain the clear glazed windows and openers, which had been installed at first floor level, and a dormer window.
  • I lay on top of the trunk and watched the dust drift from the dark of the cedar panelling into the hazy light glowing through the dormer window.
  • With a large roof space, it is possible in some bungalows to add a dormer bedroom in the loft, a common feature of many of them.
  • Ill-advised additions had been made, according to the fashion of the times: a den paneled in rustic pine, a long screened porch, some dormers scattered above the horizontal roof line like eyes peering down the drive. Excerpt: Blessings by Anna Quindlen
  • With the passing of the Act, politicians promised that homeowners would no longer need to seek permission from the ‘superior’ to install a dormer window in their attic or to build a conservatory.
  • The couple also carved out a cozy office from an upstairs closet by again taking advantage of eave space and adding an extra dormer with a window seat.
  • Their scheme includes 12 two-bedroom duplex apartments in a two storey plus dormer block on part of the site, and the construction of a pub, lounge, community meeting room and ancillary services in a separate building on the site.
  • He acknowledged the input of Stephen Dormer who had assisted him in managing the team but who was unable to be present this week.
  • The main bedroom is to the rear of the house and is quite spacious with plenty of light from a large dormer window.
  • Wooden stairs lead to a bright open landing with timber floors and a wooden ceiling featuring a large dormer window.
  • The poor design and ill proportions of the dormer and bay windows and the visual relationship between them results in a most unsatisfactory appearance.
  • A traditional way to bring daylight into an attic with a steeply pitched roof is to add dormer windows.
  • It pledged to put cute little Colonial-style dormers on the store.
  • Its stout ribs, curving outwards and downwards from this magnificent balk, supported the carvel-built roof, so that the upper half of the building appeared -- and indeed was -- a large inverted hull, decorated with dormer windows, brick chimneys, and a round pigeon-house surmounted by a gilded vane. Wandering Heath
  • The en suite shower room has a tiled stand-in shower, a hand basin and a dormer window.
  • The charming dormer cottages in brick, with their magnificent gardens looked extremely well as did the mock Tudor style houses opposite.
  • The double has a built-in sink unit and storage presses as well as a built-in wardrobe, while the single is of medium size with a large dormer window.
  • Part of the Sandvik Group, Dormer's expertise lies in the manufacture of superior round tools - drills, taps, cutters, reamers and thread milling cutters - in Solid Carbide and HSS.
  • A dormer window affords sea views while there is also an en suite shower room.
  • No one pretends that for a moment, indeed the sharpness of enemy reprisals will certainly decrease as the Allied poundings itself is magnified, but the sting of the Stuka, the jeer of the Ju. 88, the drone of the Dormer, and the mischief of the Messerschmitt, have all been measured by the flying men of the United Nations, who have once again shewn themselves the salt of the earth. The Plans Unfold
  • Dormer suggested that she had become hopelessly entangled in the brush, which he called a "tough, desolate, tangled mess. Long Island Serial Killer: Remains Of Shannan Gilbert, Missing New Jersey Prostitute, Found Near Oak Beach
  • Among the monuments is the tomb in the north aisle of Sir Robert Dormer, a rare example of early Renaissance work, dated 1552.
  • Gables, by the way, are actual extensions of the roof line and are not to be confused with dormer windows, which can spring up in the middle of a section of roof.
  • A square roofe without Dormans, with two Lucoms on each side," means, I think, without dormer windows, and with luthern windows. Sabbath in Puritan New England
  • This material is also excellent for use on low-pitched roofs in areas such as porches, sunrooms and shed dormers, and as additional protection in valleys and other particularly vulnerable areas.
  • Roo lifted one sleepy eyelid, then closed it again as she made her way to the padded bench in the nearest dormer. THIS HEART OF MINE
  • Recently, Jenkins used two pairs of paintings in a home at a slant where dormer windows met a wall in order to create height in a small space.
  • The roof is low-pitched and small dormer windows are sometimes used.
  • A real bonus of this property is the converted attic, an almost 14 square metre room with a large dormer window.
  • A few unexpected moves push these time-honored forms into the modern world: extreme angles to the roof pitches, compressed fenestration with staggered window sizes, and square dormers.
  • Much of her time in France she lived in dormered attics like that. THE GWEN JOHN SCULPTURE
  • It was a small room with a dormer window overlooking the railway line. TOY SHOP
  • The five-bay double-pile Georgian house has a gabled roof with dormer windows and massive chimneys that accommodate flues for fifteen fireplaces.
  • The left portion sat low, with a simple sloping roof and dormer windows for its second floor. Dark Secrets 2: No Time to Die the Deep End of Fear
  • Between the 1760's and 1770's the gambrel roofs fell out of favor and were converted into a second story and a gable roof with or without dormers.
  • Know the true value of time, snatch, seize and enjoy every moment of it. –Philip Dormer Stanhope Chesterfield.
  • This material is also excellent for use on low-pitched roofs in areas such as porches, sunrooms and shed dormers, and as additional protection in valleys and other particularly vulnerable areas.
  • After repairing and replacing key house elements like windows and siding, they inserted a dormer, a porch, and a large, elegant steel-and-glass bifold door.
  • Egbert Dormer did not turn out from his hand so much work as some men that I know, but he was overflowing with art up to his ears -- and with tobacco, so that, upon the whole, the bijou was a pleasant rendezvous. Ayala's Angel
  • It has a dormer roof joining both gable ends.
  • Egbert Dormer did not turn out from his hand so much work as some men that I know, but he was overflowing with art up to his ears — and with tobacco, so that, upon the whole, the bijou was a pleasant rendezvous. Ayala's Angel
  • Project involves converting unfinished attic space to a 15-by-15-foot bedroom and bathroom with shower; installing four new windows, shed dormer and closet space under eaves; adding insulation, carpeting, rail and baluster to stairs; extending ventilation system; and finishing walls and ceilings. Best Real Estate ROIs Minor Kitchen...
  • In the spirit of the colonial revival, they replaced the Victorian era mansard roof with a hip roof with dormers, removed the two-story service wing, replaced windows and doors, and restored or embellished interior woodwork.
  • It was in these dormer bedrooms that Alan Crawford and his family stayed during their weekend visits.
  • The room was on the top floor and the liny dormer window seemed designed to keep out the summer breezes rather than to let them in. The Dirty Duck
  • Despite this it was mostly very original and intact when I got it, with a bedroom with a small dormer window in the attic space.
  • The master bedroom shares the dormer with the home office; an interior window and door allow each space to borrow light from the other.
  • The front was illuminated, and high up on the roof crouched the dormer windows of the sixth-floor rooms. COVER STORY
  • The killer gets away and Dormer lets the assumption stand that the brutal murderer also topped his partner.
  • Keeping a steep roof pitch and adding dormers to the new second story are good options.
  • As the investigation proceeds, Dormer's instincts eventually lead the team to a stake-out of the murder suspect and they give chase.
  • Our home has a wood floor, cob entryway, three dormers for windows and a door.

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