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East Asian hip-and-gable roof; Mokoshi: A Japanese decorative pent roof; Pavilion roof : A low-pitched roof hipped equally on all sides and centered over a square or regular polygonal floor plan. [10] The sloping sides rise to a peak. For steep tower roof variants use Pyramid roof. Pyramid roof: A steep hip roof on a square building.
A raised bungalow in Chicago with a hipped roof A hip roof type house in Khammam city, India. A hip roof, hip-roof [1] or hipped roof, is a type of roof where all sides slope downward to the walls, usually with a fairly gentle slope, with variants including tented roofs and others. [2] Thus, a hipped roof has no gables or other vertical sides ...
House with Dutch gable roof in Schleswig-Holstein, Germany. 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
A mansard roof on the Château de Dampierre, by Jules Hardouin-Mansart, great-nephew of François Mansart. A mansard or mansard roof (also called French roof or curb roof) is a multi-sided gambrel-style hip roof characterised by two slopes on each of its sides, with the lower slope at a steeper angle than the upper, and often punctured by dormer windows.
All three windows feature lead glass detailing in a diamond-obelisk design. Above and set back from the porch roof extension is a large second-floor dormer with a hip roof which caps the west façade. [1] The south elevation is dominated by a side porch covered by an open lattice beam pergola which runs the entire length of the building. The ...
Roof pitch is the steepness of a roof expressed as a ratio of inch(es) rise per horizontal foot (or their metric equivalent), or as the angle in degrees its surface deviates from the horizontal. A flat roof has a pitch of zero in either instance; all other roofs are pitched .
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The three central bays are covered by a hip roof porch supported by pairs of chamfered posts. A paneled frieze runs between pairs of brackets that are above each pair of posts. The second floor and gable central bay features a pair of round-headed windows. These windows are also found on the gable of the north and south sides.