Glossary
- Lucarne
- Small gabled opening in a roof or spire.
- Luckenbooth
- (Scots): Lock-up booth or shop.
- Lugged
- Of an architrave (a formalized lintel), with side projections at the top. Also called an eared architrave.
- Lunette
- Semicircular window or blind panel.
- Lychgate
- (lit. corpse-gate): Roofed gateway entrance to a churchyard for the reception of a coffin.
- Lynchet
- Long terraced strip of soil on the downward side of prehistoric and medieval fields, accumulated because of continual ploughing along the contours.
