Oriel window: a small room projecting from the wall

A prominent window on a facade. A polygonal bay window with three or five sides projects from the wall, supported from below by carved stone corbels or wooden brackets. All window surfaces are leaded lattice glass, and it has its own small roof or connects to a gable. This creates an extra seating nook indoors. Avoid: making the bay window a floor-to-ceiling square glass box, removing the supporting corbels below to make it float, having only one face on the bay window, making it larger than a person.

Translated from Chinese by AI.

立面上一處突出的窗。三面或五面的多角形凸窗從牆面挑出,下方以雕花的石托座或木托撐住,窗面全部是鉛條格子玻璃,上方有自己的小屋頂或接續到山牆。室內因此多出一個坐的角落。避免:把凸窗做成落地的方形玻璃盒、拿掉下方的托座讓它懸空、讓凸窗的面數只有一面、把它做得比一個人還大。