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B - Category

• Balconette
• Balcony
• Balcony – Juliet
• Baldachin
• Ballflower
• Baluster
• Balustrade
• Banco
• Bargeboard
• Bas-relief
• Basalt
• Basilica
• Bastion
• Battered Chimney
• Battlement
• Bead & Reel Pattern
• Beakhead
• Belfry
• Belt Course
• Belvedere
• Bezant
• Blind Tracery
• Board & Batten
• Boiserie
• Bressumer
• Brise-soleil
• Broken Pediment
• Bucranium
• Bullnose Tile
• Bultos
• Buttress

False balcony outside a window.

An exterior or interior platform projecting from the wall of a building that is supported by columns or brackets and enclosed with a balustrade.

An exterior or interior platform that usually has wall on the sides and a balustrade on the front. Commonly it is a smaller balcony. So named for the small protrusion portrayed in Shakespeare’s play Romeo and Juliet.

A richly decorated canopy that can be supported by columns, suspended from a roof, or projected from a wall.  It was traditionally placed over an altar or a throne.  It can also be a freestanding canopy made of stone, wood or metal.

Three leaves embracing a ball that is a 14th century English design that is also called “bell flower”.

Small posts that make up a railing in a staircase.

The combination of a railing with supporting balusters.

Built-in seating that acts as a bench.

A board, usually ornately carved, attached along the projecting edge of a gable roof. Also can be called vergeboard.