Franklin Historic District Design Guidelines

DRAFT FRANKLIN HISTORIC DISTRICT DESIGN GUIDELINES 42 Residential Buildings Additions to Historic Residential Buildings Dormers • Place dormers in locations with obscured visibility from the front façade or street. • Appropriately size and locate dormers to fit with the historic building’s architectural style and roof shape. Dormers should be designed to be similar yet subordinate in detailing, scale, width, and massing to existing dormers. • Relate the style, scale, and proportion of dormer windows to windows on lower floors of the historic building. • Use roof dormers instead of wall dormers and design them according to the graphic below: Dormer roof pitch should be at least 3:12 and no less than half the main roof pitch. Dormer should be recessed at least 1 foot from the exterior building wall. Dormer cheek walls should be at least 30 inches from the buildings gable walls. Dormer should be located below the main ridge of the building. 1 1 2 2 4 3 4 3