These ornate barge boards indicate a victorian.
Victorian roof barge.
Lightweight hardwearing and long lasting welsh slate was the most common victorian roof covering.
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These include stained glass panes in the windows ornamented ridge tiles on the roof shapely wooden barge boards beside the roof and the odd finial.
Victorian and edwardian houses with gambrel roofs by sarah e.
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Bargeboard is exterior house trim usually ornately carved that is attached along the roof line of a gable.
Originally this victorian wood trim also called vergeboard or verge board verge being the end or edge of a thing was used to hide the ends of rafters it hangs from the projecting end of a gable roof.
These three features can be found at the edge of the roof in particular where the top of the exterior wall meets the roof.
Primarily used to improve the aesthetics of a roof these features also help protect the roof and wall from the elements.