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  2. Cape Cod (house) - Wikipedia

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    A Cape Cod house is a low, broad, single or double-story frame building with a moderately-steep-pitched gabled roof, a large central chimney, and very little ornamentation. Originating in New England in the 17th century, the simple symmetrical design was constructed of local materials to withstand the stormy weather of Cape Cod .

  3. Gable roof - Wikipedia

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    A form of gable roof ( Käsbissendach) on the tower of the church in Hopfen am See, Bavaria. 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 ...

  4. List of roof shapes - Wikipedia

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    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-hipped roof. Overhanging eaves forming shelter around the building are a consequence where the gable wall is in line with the other walls of the buildings; i.e., unless the upper gable is recessed.

  5. Gambrel - Wikipedia

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    Gambrel. A gambrel or gambrel roof is a usually symmetrical two-sided roof with two slopes on each side. The upper slope is positioned at a shallow angle, while the lower slope is steep. This design provides the advantages of a sloped roof while maximizing headroom inside the building's upper level and shortening what would otherwise be a tall ...

  6. 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. 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 portion of a wall ...

  7. Eastlake movement - Wikipedia

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    The gable bracing of William S. Clark House is untraditional as most gable bracings of Eastlake Style would connect to the edge of the roof. The gable bracing instead hangs from the edge which provides shadows on the house wall. The frieze contains vertical and zigzag bevelled sticks, and pierced and chamfered brackets that surround the cornice.

  8. 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. A Dutch gable roof combines the benefits of both the gable and ...

  9. 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).

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