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This section covers other details on Victorian and Edwardian period houses:
Finials are decorative ends to roof ridges. Most are in terracotta, but you can also see examples in stone, wood and iron.
Terracotta finials are of numerous patterns, for example:
Ceramic finials have either two parts - a decorative piece which fits onto a peg on a special ridge tile, or a single piece.
frond finial
ridge tile for finialOther examples are:
dragon finial
wooden finial (Bangor, Northern Ireland)
ball on a peg
bun and peg finial
ribbed peg finial
iron finialGutters, down pipes, hoppers and other fittings were cast iron, in round, square and ogee styles.
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