Old Roof Styles

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Old roof styles.

36 types of roofs styles for houses illustrated roof design examples 1. The term gable refers to the triangular shape that is formed when the two pitched areas of your. It s steep pointed roof which extends all the way to the ground or close to the ground. In the united states second empire or mansard was a victorian style popular from the 1860s through the 1880s.

These houses often had slate roofs which might be ornamented with multi color slates arranged in patterns. Conical roof or cone roof. Today mansard style roofs are occasionally used in one and two story apartment buildings restaurants and neo eclectic houses. The roof might be straight sided convex or concave and broken by dormers.

Compare with bell cast eaves. Roofs were clad too in wood shingles or even metal. De l orme also used bow roofs see below. Bow roof rainbow gothic gothic arch and ship s bottom roof.

Scalloped copper shingles follow the tight curves of this conical roof. The a frame is very easy to identify. Decorative iron roof cresting goes hand in hand with the style. Onion dome or rather an imperial roof.

Most flat roofs are not really 100 flat but rather they are low sloped roofs that appear flat but have a little. The pale gray metal finish on this standing seam roof offers a welcome contrast to the textured.