Gable features
However you protect your finished course of brickwork, you will require
a coping in some form or another. With stone, either reconstituted or
natural, many designs can be achieved and like all building products
there are many variations and options. It is pleasantly surprising just
how much effort has been applied to the simple coping, the design of
which has now become almost an art form in itself embellishing and protecting
in one.
The three applications shown below refer to gable end protection.
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Dutch barn gable end Stepped down from the curved apex with ball finial, this coping follows a traditional Dutch barn style and shows the use of a blind gable vent centre piece. Asprey Homes, Kent |
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Architect-designed gable end and copings Architect-designed gable end and copings forming two completed gables over Tuscan style colonnade supporting first floor rooms. Cala Homes, Broxbourne |
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Church building gable end Church Building Gable End showing ecclesiastical apex stone and coping stopped mid way with intermediate blocks and terminated with corbelled kneeler blocks. |