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

The main portion, with its hipped roof and mullioned windows, is very old, but the two wings that stretch to the east and west are comparatively modern, and date back little over a century.

From The Rivet in Grandfather's Neck A Comedy of Limitations by Cabell, James Branch