Franklin Historic District Design Guidelines

DRAFT FRANKLIN HISTORIC DISTRICT DESIGN GUIDELINES 48 Residential Buildings Non-Historic Residential Buildings Dormers • Appropriately size and locate dormers to fit with the building’s architectural style. • Dormers should relate to the style and proportion of windows on lower floors. • 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