This collection of photos show 2 x ridge dragons installed on the porch and main roof of the house and were sent in by the customer after completing the renovation of their house in Southampton. A smaller scale angled ridge dragon was used for the porch which looks perfectly in scale and proportion and has some excellent detail which can be appreciated from close up. The porch is wooden construction with decorative clover leaf bargeboard and the roof looks like Spanish or Chinese slate with plain terracotta ridge tiles. The dragon is installed so it overlooks from the porch and creates a lovely feature to add decoration
The main house roof features a larger scale emperor roof dragon and again having a larger scale piece for the main roof works well because it create a great silhouette and can be seen better from ground level. The customer had to be a bit more inventive with installing the dragon because technically it is normally installed on a run of ridge or at the apex of a gable end but this one is installed on the hip end in place of a ridge tile. The ridge angle looks like it may have differed slightly from the original ridge that was located there but the roofer has done a fine job with incorporating it into the roof design with mortar and from the ground level the dragon creates nice feature on the hip
The property is approx. 1950’s or 1960’s and has pebbledash rendering, the customer has done a fine job in adding some more original features to enhance the building and was in the process of repainting and improving the rendering
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