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2. Gable roof - Wikipedia

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   A gable roof[1] is a roof consisting of two sections whose upper horizontal edges meet to form its ridge. The most common roof shape in cold or temperate climates, it is constructed of rafters, roof trusses or purlins. The pitch of a gable roof can vary greatly.

3. Gable - Wikipedia

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   Gable. A single-story house with three gables, although only two can be seen (highlighted in yellow). This arrangement is a crossed gable roof. Gable in Finland. Decorative gable roof at 176–178 St. John's Place between Sixth and Seventh Avenue in the Park Slope neighborhood of Brooklyn, New York City. A gable is the generally triangular ...

4. List of roof shapes - Wikipedia

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   Half-hipped (clipped gable, jerkinhead [7]): A combination of a gable and a hip roof (pitched roof without changes to the walls) with the hipped part at the top and the gable section lower down. Dutch gable, gablet : A hybrid of hipped and gable with the gable (wall) at the top and hipped lower down; i.e. the opposite arrangement to the half ...

5. Dutch gable roof - Wikipedia

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   A Dutch gable roof or gablet roof (in Britain) is a roof with a small gable at the top of a hip roof. The term Dutch gable is also used to mean a gable with parapets. Some sources refer to this as a gable-on-hip roof. [1] Dutch gable roof works of Padmanabhapuram Palace in India.

6. Cornice - Wikipedia

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   A gable roof with two cornice returns on the Härnösands rådhus A cornice return is an architectural detail that occurs where a roof's horizontal cornice connects to a gable's rake. [ 5 ] : p.67 It is a short horizontal extension of the cornice that occurs on each side of the gable end of the building (see picture of Härnösands rådhus with ...

7. Dutch gable - Wikipedia

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   Dutch gable. A Dutch gable or Flemish gable is a gable whose sides have a shape made up of one or more curves and which has a pediment at the top. The gable may be an entirely decorative projection above a flat section of roof line, or may be the termination of a roof, like a normal gable (the picture of Montacute House, right, shows both types).