noun
definition
The triangular area at the peak of an external wall adjacent to, and terminating, two sloped roof surfaces (pitches).
Examples of gable in a Sentence
On this side of Gable is the fine detached rock, Napes Needle.
Its style was mainly Early English, the western gable Norman.
The roof was thatched, and perhaps had a gable at each end with a hole to allow the smoke of the wood fire to escape.
Gable on to street, with small ventilation holes.
Corrugated roof, gable facing, covers 3 bay queen post truss roof.
The bell turret rises directly from the gable end; two-tiered with a saddleback roof; small apertures with sandstone dressings.
A small trefoil light in a triangular frame is set high up in the gable.
The European-like city has a decidedly Victorian feel and features old-fashioned cafes, red brick walkways and gable roofs.
In this 1934 film, Clark Gable plays a newspaperman who runs into a rich lady on the bus when there just isn't enough room for the two of them.
The region caught the attention of mid-century movie stars and celebrities, such as Clark Gable and Ernest Hemmingway, seeking its remote beauty and sensational fishing.
The appearance of the ends of the roof is half hip, half gable.
Heavy ribs of tile-cresting with large terminals are carried along the ridge and the slope of the gable.
The lower part of the façade is adorned with three fine portals and with reliefs of a fantastic kind in sandstone, arranged in horizontal bands, and has arcading under the gable.
The access to the the roost is usually at or near the gable apex or the lower eaves.
Tall projecting porch, stone with brick gable, and plain timber architraves to doorway at junction of hall and cross wing.
The gable is finished with molded bargeboards and a carved finial, which on close examination appears to be dated 1647.
Gable ends often have fine detailing and ornate wooden bargeboards.
The crossing is very high, much higher than the nave, and outside on its gable sits a fine Sanctus bell turret.
Above right a 2 light casement in small roof gable in 1939.
Elaborate brick dentil detail to gable eaves and relief patterned brickwork to gable above GF windows.
Road front has projecting gable to right, and a bay of 1½ stories with gabled dormer and staircase window.
Sealed unit double-glazed leaded window to gable elevation and half sealed unit double-glazed timber door to gable elevation.
L plan entrance front has coped gable facing to left with end stack.
The inscription plate in the pedimented gable is in German.
The south transept has a half-timbered gable with restored Jacobean carving.
The timbered gable of the Bell Inn with its hanging baskets can be seen on the left of the road.
The west gable has an unusual four directions cross, which means from a distance the cross looks perfect from any angle!
Red brick with granite and slate rubble stone gable ends and brick coped gables with asbestos type roof.
The gable wall in the west end of the north train shed is partly glazed and partly boarded over.
In each gable a 2 light casement the curving lintel ornamented with a surround of projecting brick keystones.
Note the round entrance to the " pigeon loft " in the gable.
Sonia Gable analyzes the BNP's general election manifesto.
Scottish Freemasonry did not exist at the time this gable was built and so Masonic symbolism likewise did not then exist.
All panels in east gable have been rebuilt with a hard gray ash/lime mortar.
Stone walling to rear with timber framed brick nogging, left gable.
Attic story to gable bay carried on timber corbel brackets above 1st floor oriel window also carried on timber brackets.
All have 40-degree slope gable roofs with either concrete pantiles (the majority) or flat tiles.
Right side of gable was original front with central gabled porch in angle with projecting gable to right.
From its left-hand gable turn left through a gate to the burial ground with tall sycamores.
The next time you see an old barn, note the small holes in the walls, often triangular, at the gable ends.
The former had a weather vane on its gable that was illustrated by Claude Messent in his book on the subject.
The weigh-house (1582) is a picturesque building with quaint gable and tower.
The lower part of the façade is adorned with three fine portals and with reliefs of a fantastic kind in sandstone, arranged in horizontal bands, and has arcading under the gable.
A quatrefoil light is set high up in gable.
Left end adjoins No. 46 whilst right end has a 2 light both floors and framing forming quatrefoil in gable.
The gable end of a timbered house is on the right hand side of the lane leading up to the church.
Gable has renewed 3 light casement with top lights, mullion and transom window above with attic 2 light casement.
Kayley says she needs to uphold her image as "Hollywood royalty" because she's legendary actor Clark Gable's granddaughter.
Wasdale Head, between Gable and the Scafell range, is peculiarly grand, with dark grey screes and black crags frowning above its narrow bottom.
The regular form of the buildings was rectangular, the gable sides probably being shorter than the others.