A covered and enclosed entrance to a building, whether taken from the interior, and forming a sort of vestibule within the main wall, or projecting without and with a separate roof
A covered and inclosed entrance to a building, whether taken from the interior, and forming a sort of vestibule within the main wall, or projecting without and with a separate roof
A flat exterior extension of a home and, unlike a deck porches are covered by a roof
a structure attached to the exterior of a building often forming a covered entrance
A porch is a raised platform built along the outside wall of a house and often covered with a roof. Roofed structure, usually open at front and sides, projecting from the face of a building and used to protect an entrance. If colonnaded, it may be called a portico. A veranda is typically a long porch surrounded by a railing, often extending along more than one side of a building. Simple porches were exceedingly common in the domestic architecture of Britain and the U.S. from the late 18th century. In Gothic cathedrals the porch was often a small gabled structure projecting from the northern or southern walls of the nave. See also loggia, narthex
A small covered verandah outside an entrance door - in the Bungalow this became a large, deep external "room" often used for sleeping