Architrave - Term used to describe a moulded door or window frame.

Art Deco - A style fashionable between the two world wars which relies on geometrical patterns and sleek lines.

Test Match, West Bridgeford (Art Deco) - Picture: Michael Slaughter

Art Nouveau - A style relying on flowing lines and sinuous forms, often based on nature and the human figure. Popular between 1890 and 1914.

Arts and Crafts - Late 19th-century movement which emphasised the value of handicraft and good design as against mass-production.

Ashlar - Smooth (dressed) stone blocks.

Bar back - Shelving, often ornately treated and incorporating mirrors, at the rear of a servery. Also known as a back-fitment or (Scotland and Northern Ireland) a gantry.

Batten board - Small strip of wood used, for example, to cover the joints between vertical siding.

Board and batten - Vertical siding where wood strips (battens) hide the seams where other boards are joined.

Brewer’s Tudor - A style especially popular between the world wars which drew nostalgically on the half-timbered architecture of the Tudor period.

Black Horse, Northfield, Birmingham (Brewers Tudor) - Picture: Michael Slaughter

Casement window - A window that opens by swinging inward or outward like a door.

Casing - The trim bordering the inside or outside of a window or door.

Clapboard - Tapered horizontal boards used as siding, thickest on their bottom edge; each overlaps the one below. Also known as weatherboarding.

Clerestory window - A window placed in the upper walls of a room, usually at an angle, to provide extra light.

Corbelling - Decorative projection along the top of a wall (or any moulded projection of similar form).

Counter screen - Glazed screen on a serving counter, usually with a part that can be raised or lowered.

Coach & Horses, Barnburgh (Counter screen) - Picture: Michael Slaughter

Course - Continuous row of building materials, such as shingle, brick or stone.

Dado - The lower part of a wall when faced or coloured differently from the upper part.

Dado rail - A rail or moulding dividing the dado from the upper part.

Dormer - The setting for a vertical window in a roof.

Embossed glass - Glass with raised and recessed areas formed by etching and grinding.

Faience - Blocks or slabs of earthenware, glazed after an initial firing.

Garden Gate, Leeds (Faience) - Picture: Michael Slaughter

Fascia - A horizontal band or board, often used to conceal the ends of rafters.

Inglenook - Corner of a large fireplace where the opening is far larger than needed and providing somewhere persons could sit.

Jug and bottle - Small section of pub, with a separate entrance from the street, selling drink for consumption off the premises.

Coach & Horses, Salford (Jug and bottle) - Picture: Michael Slaughter

Loggia - An arcaded space, roofed, but open on at least one side, typically overlooking a garden.

Matchboarding - See tongued and grooved boarding.

Moderne - Alternative term for Art Deco.

Mullion - The vertical member separating window lights.

Oriel window - Bay-window supported on a bracket.

Pot-shelf - A shelf over a bar counter for housing glasses.

Quarry tile - Floor tiles, usually red and black, in square or lozenge patterns.

Rusticated stone - Stonework, sometimes roughly finished, distinguished by having the joints deeply sunk.

Servery - The area, almost always behind a bar-counter, from which drinks are dispensed.

Stillion - A fitting in the middle of a serving area with shelves and storage facilities; sometimes called a wagon.

Terracotta - Very hard-wearing, unglazed pottery.

Terrazzo - Flooring consisting of small pieces of marble set in concrete, rubbed down and polished.

Tongue and groove boarding - Cheap panelling on walls and ceilings, consisting of boards with tongues cut along one edge and grooves on the other so that they overlap when joined.

Veneer wall - Covering one wall construction with a second material to enhance its beauty.

Wainscotting - Panelling applied to the lower part of a wall.