Glossary · V
Veranda
Also called verandah, verandas
A roofed, open-sided gallery along the front or sides of a house, on light posts; from India by way of the British colonies, and spread in America by A. J. Downing’s books.
See also: Porch
Rules that use the word
The veranda. Give the country house in a hot summer climate a veranda, or piazza, some seven or eight feet deep: a roofed porch along the front on light posts, stopping short of the ends of the front, shading the windows and the walls and giving the household a room out of doors.
Shinmei-zukuri: the style of Ise. Build the sanctuary of unpainted cypress on posts set directly in the ground, with a raised floor and veranda, a straight thatched gable roof entered on the long side, crossed finials (chigi) and ridge billets (katsuogi), and a free-standing post at each gable carrying the ridge.
Where it appears in the book
In the chapters China, Japan and Korea, The House in England and America.
A feature of Japanese, Japanese garden, Victorian architecture.
Nearby in the glossary
Usonian house · Vastu · Vastu Purusha Mandala · Vedika · Vihara · Villa · Vimana · Volute