It was a modest building, not very straight, not large, not tall; not bold-faced, with great staring windows, but a shy, blinking house, with a
conical roof going up into a peak over its garret window of four small panes of glass, like a cocked hat on the head of an elderly gentleman with one eye.
The building is recognizable for its left tower with a
conical roof, embellished by a spiral wrap around its interior staircase.
Rewinding more than just a little, the Lock-Up/Tower/Castle - with its unmistakable
conical roof - is the oldest surviving building in Everton.
The medieval nilometer at the end of Roda Island in Cairo--though of the simplest type--is particularly beautiful with its nineteenth-century Turkish
conical roof, though, as a rather small uninteresting building from the outside, it is often overlooked even by those who have lived in Cairo all their lives.
Built out of sandstone with a
conical roof, it would not look out of place in a fairytale or Disney film once you step inside.
They are, with only a couple of exceptions, all mud-plastered; they come with a pitched roof and, to one side, a neat octagonal tower-like structure with a
conical roof. This was the ticket window.
Known as the Hermitage of Powis, it was an octagonal, harled tower with a
conical roof.
The hot air passed through the thin and perforated wooden floors then rose to the
conical roof where it escaped through a cowl which turned in the wind.
Its main feature includes a
conical roof, spiral staircase as well as copper cladding and timber panels.
It was lunchtime on the third day of our Puglian holiday in a trullo, a traditional dry stone hut with
conical roof and neighbour-free view.
It was lunchtime on the third day of our Puglian 'trullo' holiday - a traditional dry stone hut with
conical roof and neighbour-free view.
See also: Roof