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2. Hip roof - Wikipedia

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   A hip roof construction in Northern Australia showing multinail truss construction. The blue pieces are roll-formed metal roof battens or purlins Common hip roof on a rectangular plan with pitches rising to a ridge. "Pavilion" hip roof on a square plan with pitches rising to a peak. Hip roofs can be constructed on a wide variety of plan shapes.

3. List of roof shapes - Wikipedia

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   Cross hipped: The result of joining two or more hip roof sections together, forming a T or L shape for the simplest forms, or any number of more complex shapes. 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.

4. Mansard roof - Wikipedia

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   Mansard roof. 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. [1][2][3] The steep roofline and windows allow for additional floors of habitable ...

5. Framing (construction) - Wikipedia

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   Slate or tile roofs offer more historic coverings for light-frame roofs. Light-frame methods allow easy construction of unique roof designs; hip roofs, for example, slope toward walls on all sides and are joined at hip rafters that span from corners to a ridge. Valleys are formed when two sloping roof sections drain toward each other.

6. Nesburt T. Ruggles House - Wikipedia

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   December 9, 1994. The Nesburt T. Ruggles House is a historic house in rural Hempstead County, Arkansas. It is a single story wood-frame structure, located southeast of the hamlet of Shover Springs, on the east side of Arkansas Highway 32. It is a Plain Tradition structure with an American Craftsman -style hip roof, built in 1912-14 by Nesburt ...

7. Henry W. Grady House - Wikipedia

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   It is a rectangular two-story wood-frame structure, with a hip roof that is obscured by a parapet-like entablature that wraps around three sides. The roof extends beyond the main bulk of the house on those three sides to form a gallery, which is supported by thirteen massive fluted Doric columns.