Rake board
Sign in to savealt=|thumb|Bargeboard, 1908 illustration A bargeboard or rake fascia is a board fastened to each projecting gable of a roof to give it strength and protection, and to conceal the otherwise exposed end grain of the horizontal timbers or purlins of the roof. The word bargeboard is probably from the Medieval Latin bargus, or barcus, a scaffold, and not from the now obsolete synonym vergeboard.
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alt=|thumb|Bargeboard, 1908 illustration A bargeboard or rake fascia is a board fastened to each projecting gable of a roof to give it strength and protection, and to conceal the otherwise exposed end grain of the horizontal timbers or purlins of the roof. The word bargeboard is probably from the Medieval Latin bargus, or barcus, a scaffold, and not from the now obsolete synonym vergeboard.
==History== thumb|upright|This late Victorian house at 38 Princetown Road in [[Bangor, County Down, Northern Ireland, has frilly bargeboards.]] thumb|upright|The Saitta House at [[Dyker Heights, Brooklyn, New York, built in 1899, has a thick bargeboard.]]