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A lean-to is originally defined as a structure in which the rafters lean against another building or wall, also referred to in prior times as a penthouse. [2] These structures characteristically have shed roofs, also referred to as "skillions", or "outshots" and "catslides" when the shed's roof is a direct extension of a larger structure's.
Shed roof attached to a barn. A shed roof, also known variously as a pent roof, lean-to roof, outshot, catslide, skillion roof (in Australia and New Zealand), and, rarely, a mono-pitched roof, [1] is a single-pitched roof surface. This is in contrast to a dual- or multiple-pitched roof.
Satari: A Swedish variant on the monitor roof; a double hip roof with a short vertical wall usually with small windows, popular from the 17th century on formal buildings. [citation needed] (Säteritak in Swedish.) Mansard (French roof): A roof with the pitch divided into a shallow slope above a steeper slope. The steep slope may be curved.
An Adirondack lean-to or Adirondack shelter is a three-sided log structure popularized in the Adirondack Mountains of Upstate New York which provides shelter for campers. [1] Since their development in the Adirondacks, this type of shelter has seen use in a number of parks throughout the United States, such as Isle Royale National Park in ...
The barn originated as a house. It is in limestone with sandstone dressings and a slate roof, and is in two storeys. The building contains a wide entrance and mullioned windows. To the left is a later lean-to extension. [a] [2] II: Storrs Farmhouse
A sunhouse is a lean-to Conservatory (greenhouse) Sunhouse may also refer to: Sunhouse, dwellings found in Arnstein, Germany; The Sunhouse (1925) by Joris Ivens;
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A pair of ashlar-faced houses with a Welsh slate roof in Neoclassical style. They have two storeys, and each house has a three-bay front, the outer bays having hipped gables. In the centre of each house is a two-storey porch with a pyramidal roof, and a lean-to verandah. The windows are sashes.