A cross-wing is an addition to a house, at right angles to the original block of a house, usually with a
gable
A gable is the generally triangular portion of a wall between the edges of intersecting roof pitches. The shape of the gable and how it is detailed depends on the structural system used, which reflects climate, material availability, and aesth ...
. A cross-wing plan is an
architectural plan
In architecture and building engineering, a floor plan is a technical drawing to scale, showing a view from above, of the relationships between rooms, spaces, traffic patterns, and other physical features at one level of a structure.
Dimensio ...
reflecting this; cross-wing architecture describes the style.
James Stevens Curl, in ''A Dictionary of Architecture and Landscape Architecture'', defines it as a "Wing attached to the hall-range of a medieval house, its axis at right angles to the hall-range, and often gabled."
Cross-wing plans have been used in other eras. For example, during the settlement period in Utah in the late 1800s, original small
hall-and-parlor plan
A hall-and-parlor house is a type of vernacular house found in early-modern to 19th century England, as well as in colonial North America. houses, often built in vernacular
Classical Revival
Neoclassicism, also spelled Neo-classicism, emerged as a Western cultural movement in the decorative and visual arts, literature, theatre, music, and architecture that drew inspiration from the art and culture of classical antiquity. Neoclassic ...
style, were sometimes extended by the addition of a
Victorian
Victorian or Victorians may refer to:
19th century
* Victorian era, British history during Queen Victoria's 19th-century reign
** Victorian architecture
** Victorian house
** Victorian decorative arts
** Victorian fashion
** Victorian literatur ...
-style cross-wing.
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