A cross-wing is an addition to a house, at right angles to the original block of a house, usually with a
gable. A cross-wing plan is an
architectural plan 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 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 literature ...
-style cross-wing.
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