In front of the verandah there has been a wooden porch. On the south is another portico surmounted by a colonnaded verandah with a dome above. It has a gable roof and a wraparound verandah. It has a high dome and a spacious colonnaded verandah. A staircase almost always dominated the front yard leading to the verandah. The main entrances are contained in a two-storey building with a colonnaded front verandah. It has a front verandah and rooms are accessed from a central hallway. Patalapuri Gumpha is slightly bigger with a pillared verandah. An interior pillared verandah or "aiwan" overlooked the ground floor from the first. Each cave has a sanctum sanctorum, a mandapa, a verandah and pillars. It has an asymmetrical plan with projecting bay windows and complex verandah forms. The sanctum has three sculpted cells, two pillars and a verandah in front of it. The backside of a longhouse can also have a smaller open verandah called 'pelaboh' built. Often it has a verandah to provide protection from the sun for spectators. The projecting caves cover a verandah all round.