My HouseLooking closely to see the many details that make up my house.

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This Personal Record book will help you to look closely at house parts - or details.

On some of the pages, you will be drawing details of your house.

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1. My House © Aberdeen City Council and Aberdeen City Heritage Trust 2013

INTRODUCTION1. What kind of building do you live in? Is it a house, a flat, an apartment

building, a cottage, a houseboat, or something else?

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During your life, you may live in many different kinds of houses. No matter what kind of building you live in, it will have some interesting building materials and details. The mixture of different materials and details helps give your house StyLe , and makes it look different from other houses.Before you go on to the next page, try an experiment. Close your eyes and think of the outside of your house. Imagine yourself standing well back from your building.Draw a picture of it from memory. Fill the picture frame with your drawing.

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ROOFS

2. Every house has a roof. What kind of roof does your house have?

Circle the drawing that shows the kind of roof your house has.

Look carefully! Your house might have a few types of roofs, so you may have to circle two or more drawings.

Flat

Hipped :a pitched roof hipped at both ends

Mansard

Catslide

Plain Pitch

steep

shallow

Mono Pitch

3. My House © Aberdeen City Council and Aberdeen City Heritage Trust 2013

ROOFS (continued)

Roofs can be covered with many different materials, including :

slates :natural material, often blue-grey in colour but can be green and purple-black

plain tile : made from clay; normally orange or red

double Roman tile :concrete tiles, normally found on newer houses

pantile :clay tiles sometimes found on older houses, cottages and farm buildings - more common on the east coast

ridge tiles : used at the top of a roof on some buildings to cover the space where two sides meet; made from clay or concrete - usually yellow or red but sometimes blue

artificial slate :normally made from slate dust and resin

Plain concrete tile : normally found on newer houseslead roof : a metal roof used for some flat roofs. Strips of lead can be used

where roofs change shape and for ridgesFelt : a modern material usually used for flat roofs (see page 2).

zinc or lead ridge

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ROOFS (continued)

3. What material is your roof covered with? _________________________________

4. What colour is your roof? __________________________________________

5. Since you know the shape of your roof and the material it is made out of, make a drawing of the roof covering your house.

Fill the frame with a picture of your roof.

5. My House © Aberdeen City Council and Aberdeen City Heritage Trust 2013

DOORWAYS Every house has a main entrance, or doorway, that can be decorated in many different ways. Here are just a few examples.

Stable Door

Glass Door

Wood Panel Door

Double Door

Door surrounds can be designed in many ways. Are the door surrounds on your house designed in any of these ways?

6. Circle the drawings that are similar to the doorway details of your house.

Pilasters Flush Door

Stone Surround or Gibbs Surround

Flat Arch

Sidelights

Pediment Broken Pediment

Rectangular with Lintel

Fanlight Keystone

Round ArchSidelights

Round Arch

Fanlight

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DOORWAYS (continued)

What does the main entrance to your house look like?

7. Draw the door and all the details surrounding the door. Fill the frame with a drawing of your doorway.

8. The door is made of : circle glass metal wood plastic

7. My House © Aberdeen City Council and Aberdeen City Heritage Trust 2013

Oriel

Bay

SashCasement

Dormer

Tilt and Swivel

Bay (pair)

WINDOWSEvery house has windows!

9. Circle the drawings that match the windows in your house.

Roof-light or Sky-light

Fanlight with Sideglass

Cupola

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WINDOWS (continued)

10. Draw the different types of windows that you have on the front of your house. Fill the picture frame with drawings of your windows.

9. My House © Aberdeen City Council and Aberdeen City Heritage Trust 2013

OUTSIDE WALLS What are the outside walls of your house made of ?

11. Circle the materials that match those used on your house.

Wood can be used in many different kinds of ways.

Stone can be laid in many different patterns.

Walls can also be covered with :Wood

Brick

Sandstone

Granite

Harling

header face

stretcher face

Stretcher Bond

Flemish Bond English Bond

Brick can be laid in many different patterns.

Square-snecked or Aberdeen Bond

Harling or Pebble-dash

Concrete Block

Coursed Squared Rubble

Uncoursed (Random)Rubble

Weather boarding

Vertical boarding

Half-timbering

Ashlar

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OUTSIDE WALLS 12. Make a detailed drawing showing the pattern of the material used to

make the outside walls of your house. They may have more than one material. Fill the picture frame with your drawing.

11. My House © Aberdeen City Council and Aberdeen City Heritage Trust 2013

SPECIAL FEATURES Many houses have special, or distinctive, features.

13. Circle the features that your house has.

Turret

Eaves

Crow steps

Finials

Lintels

Quoins (cornerstones)

Cresting

Ridge

Balcony

CorniceConsole or bracket

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SPECIAL FEATURES 14.Draw some of the special features on your house.

Include more than one drawing in the frame.

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MY DRAWING Now that you have looked closely at some of the parts on the front of your house, take this book back to school. You will use your detail drawings in this book to make a final drawing of your house.

When you are in school, you might want to follow this procedure :

i. First draw the basic shape of your house, as it looks from the front.How many storeys, or floors, does it have?

ii. Then add the details. Check to be sure your drawing shows the kind of : •roof •windows •outsidewalls •doorways •specialfeatures

iii. Add colour if you want!

Compare your final drawing to the drawing of your house on page 1.

Which drawing shows more detail? _________________________________

Wow! You’ve learned a lot about houses and what gives them StyLe - brilliant!

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MY COMMUNITYThe process of looking for details in buildings helps you notice more.

You can use this skill when you look at all kinds of buildings or places: schools, shops, churches, libraries, parks, bridges, skyscrapers… anything built or designed in your community.

Aerial view of Aberdeen looking north: Union Street in the foreground, Aberdeen Grammer School top left, and Rosemount Square top centre.

Edited : Allan Paterson Illustrated: George Galbraith, Iain Mitchell and Douglas Campbell Layout: John Sullivan

Adapted from a concept by the Pittsburgh History and Landmarks Foundation

Supported by Aberdeen City Heritage Trust

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