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A lean-to addition is an appendix to an existing structure constructed to fulfill a new need. Sometimes, it covers an external staircase, as in a 15th century addition against one of the walls of the large chapter room of the cathedral of Meaux. Other uses include protecting entrances, or establishing covered markets outside existing buildings. [1]
A single-pitched roof can be a smaller addition to an existing roof, known in some areas as a lean-to roof, and a "outshot", "catslide", or skillion roof in others. Some Saltbox homes were expanded by the addition of such a roof, often at a shallower pitch than the original roof. Single-pitched roofs are used beneath clerestory windows.
Single-pitched roof. Shed roof (lean-to, pent roof, [2] skirt roof, outshot, skillion, mono-roof [3]): A roof with one slope, historically attached to a taller wall. Saw-tooth: Multiple single-pitched roofs arrayed in a row, sometimes seen on factories. [4] Multi-pitched roof:
The mill has a square shape with a lean-to addition (1955) on the southwest end; half of the lean-to section is two stories high, while the other portion is one story. The mill rests on a stone and concrete foundation, with weatherboard exterior and a roof replaced in 1947.
Linhay (rhymes with finny), also spelt Linny, is a type of farm building with an open front and usually a lean-to roof. [1] In Newfoundland English a linney is similar to a storage space, kitchen, or porch but as an addition to the rear of a house, [2] and in American English it is an open, lean-to shed attached to a farmyard. [3]
It is a 2 + 1 ⁄ 2-story wood-frame structure, with a gabled roof and clapboarded exterior. Its front facade is four bays wide, with a large chimney centered on one of the central bays, and the main entrance on the other. A lean-to section, probably added in the late 18th century, extends to the rear, giving the house a saltbox profile. A two ...
Two stories tall, the walls are covered with board-and-batt siding, and has a corrugated metal roof of medium pitch. It has two single-story additions. The northern addition is 60 feet long with a shed roof, while the eastern addition runs the length of the original structure, widening the footprint of the barn by 15 feet. It has a lean-to ...
The barn is partly timber-framed with brick infill, and partly in brick, and it has a roof of slate and stone-slate. There are lean-to additions at both ends, and at the right is an addition at right angles that has external stone steps leading to a doorway in the gable. Inside the barn are two cruck trusses with wattle and daub panels. [10] II