gable roof

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Chicken barns have massive fans at each end of the gable roof.

From Seattle Times • Jun. 3, 2024

That is where they built their current Colonial-style home with a gable roof and hardwood floors, three bedrooms and four full baths, according to local property records.

From Washington Post • Jan. 13, 2023

Todd Brunner buys this home, with three upstairs bedrooms and a steep, gable roof, in the spring of 2003.

From Salon • Nov. 17, 2022

The one-story structure featured a wood-shingled gable roof and whitewashed brick stack chimney.

From Washington Times • Feb. 4, 2017

There are still two floors above, but as they are both contained in the huge gable roof of the house, they are more useful as store-rooms than as habitable apartments. 

From A Tramp's Wallet stored by an English goldsmith during his wanderings in Germany and France by Duthie, William