Hi Vagabonds.Another sunny day in the NEK (not complaining) High hopes for tomorrow..I call your attention to my avatar.This is a Witch Window, according to lore it was hung at an 45 degree angle to keep Witches from flying their brooms in to your house..Of course that is a lot of malarkey..Here it is straight from wikipedia "In American vernacular architecture, a witch window (also known as a Vermont window) is a window (usually a double-hung sash window, occasionally a single-sided casement window) placed in the gable-end wall of a house1 and rotated approximately 1/8 of a turn (45 degrees) from the vertical, leaving it diagonal, with its long edge parallel to the roof slope.12 This technique allows a builder to fit a full-sized window into the long, narrow wall space between two adjacent roof lines.
Witch windows are found almost exclusively in or near the U.S. state of Vermont, generally in the central and northern parts of the state,3 and principally in farmhouses from the 19th century.".Well aren’t we Vermonters clever. :-).Have a great day y’all..ttfn
Hi Vagabonds.Another sunny day in the NEK (not complaining) High hopes for tomorrow..I call your attention to my avatar.This is a Witch Window, according to lore it was hung at an 45 degree angle to keep Witches from flying their brooms in to your house..Of course that is a lot of malarkey..Here it is straight from wikipedia "In American vernacular architecture, a witch window (also known as a Vermont window) is a window (usually a double-hung sash window, occasionally a single-sided casement window) placed in the gable-end wall of a house1 and rotated approximately 1/8 of a turn (45 degrees) from the vertical, leaving it diagonal, with its long edge parallel to the roof slope.12 This technique allows a builder to fit a full-sized window into the long, narrow wall space between two adjacent roof lines.
Witch windows are found almost exclusively in or near the U.S. state of Vermont, generally in the central and northern parts of the state,3 and principally in farmhouses from the 19th century.".Well aren’t we Vermonters clever. :-).Have a great day y’all..ttfn