hipped roof
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The photographs showed fire within the house, just behind an entrance portico that includes rectangular brick or stone columns supporting a hipped roof.
From Washington Post • Dec. 22, 2021
The Cheney house, built in 1903, was a broad-shouldered example of Wright’s Prairie style, its hipped roof extending protectively over a base of Roman brick.
From Los Angeles Times • Jun. 8, 2017
Built on wheels that can be covered when parked, the Cyprus has a corner porch and hipped roof.
From National Geographic • Jul. 21, 2015
It is a large square structure, two and a half stories in height, with a hipped roof rising above a handsome cornice with prominent modillions and surmounted by a balustraded belvedere.
From The Colonial Architecture of Philadelphia by Cousins, Frank
A somewhat later development was the hipped roof, in which the gabled ends were flattened, making four flat sides sloping from the ridge-pole.
From Remodeled Farmhouses by Northend, Mary H.
