Arboricultural - Relating to trees.

Article 4 Direction - An order giving the Council greater control over alterations to buildings and their surroundings.

Balanced flue - A balanced flue passes from a boiler through an external wall of a building and serves as inlet and outlet.

Camber - Slightly arched from rendering the middle higher than the ends.

Came - A strip of lead or soft copper, shaped to fix each piece of glass to the next one, in leaded lights or stained glass windows.

Crittall - The trade name of a steel window used in the 1920s and 1930s in the eastern and northern parts of the Suburb.

Crown roof - A roof with depressed flat top, resembling a crown, within a sloping tiled surround.

Flue - A passage for smoke in a chimney.

Glazing bar - A rebated wood or T-Shaped metal bar which divides the panes of glass into an opening.

GRP (Plastic) - Glass Reinforced Plastic.

Half dormers - A vertical window set into the wall breaking through a sloping roof.

Hip - the intersection of two sloping roofs, foming an external angle.

Hopper head - An external receptacle at the top of vertical pipes.

Light - A window, usually of several panes; the part between two mullions or transoms.

‘Moderne’ - The ‘international Modern’ style prevalent in architecture during the 1920s nd 1930s.

Mullion - A vertical dividing member between the lights of a door or window, each of which may be further divided into panes by glazing bar.

Pantile - A tile shaped like an S laid horizontally.

Plumbing stack - External vertical pipes.

Skylight - Used here to mean a horizontal glazed opening set in a flat roof as distinct from a rooflight set in a sloping roof.

Soil & waste pipe - External pipe collecting contaminated water from a building.

Stock brick - Is a handmade clay brick produced and thrown in a stock mould and fired in the traditional way in a clamp or kiln.

Transom - A horizontal stone, brick, tile or timber member separating the lights of a window.

Up and over door - A door (usually to a garage) that opens upwards, by retracing into the building.

Valley - The intersection of two sloping surfaces of a roof towards which water flows.

Veranda - Covered platform usually at ground level outside a house. Also known as loggia.

Vertical boarded - Vertical timber boards very closely laid together.