This lovely set of photos taken on a sunny day with blues sky show quite an imposing but beautiful terracotta dragon finial as a feature piece on a bungalow roof. It was installed on a beautiful bungalow in Minster in Kent, the customer was having some roof works done. As part of the works some of the ridge tiles were replaced and repointed with mortar. The roof is four sided also known as double hip, square of pyramid In terms of the shape and they was looking for a lovely feature piece for the apex
The dragon has been used very creatively to create a stunning feature at the apex. The roofer has removed the central ridge at the top of the roof and has installed the dragon in place with mortar bedding and along with the repointing work has incorporated the dragon nicely into the roof. The dragon is currently brighter in colour than the ridge tiles and roof tiles on the roof but will darken as it weathers and ages naturally and will weather to a similar colour to the roof fittings
It shows a very good example of how versatile the dragon finials can be because not only can they be fitted on gable ends and hip ends they can be used in this way to creating a feature at the apex of a four sided roof to add architectural detail and interest to the roof. We have several ridge dragons that come in different sizes and styles that could be used in the same way
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