lean-to roof

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The aisle was consequently covered with a lean-to roof, or with a separate gabled roof of its own.

From The Ground Plan of the English Parish Church by Thompson, A. Hamilton (Alexander Hamilton)

The apartment was very small, with a lean-to roof, but then I reigned over it in solitary grandeur, while a dozen commercial travellers were packed into the three or four other bedrooms in the house.

From Disturbed Ireland Being the Letters Written During the Winter of 1880-81. by Becker, Bernard H.

The interior of the building, consisting of one room and an attic covered by a lean-to roof, had undergone no change beyond the removal of Dame Trippew's pathetic stock at the time of her bankruptcy.

From The Queen of Sheba & My Cousin the Colonel by Aldrich, Thomas Bailey

Said cells are built in long rows, under a lean-to roof, mostly opening face to face on an open corridor, which is uncovered.

From Letters from China and Japan by Dewey, John

The western alley is part of an interesting fifteenth-century house which is built over it, and the south alley has a lean-to roof.

From Bell's Cathedrals: The Cathedral Church of Gloucester [2nd ed.] A Description of Its Fabric and A Brief History of the Espicopal See by Massé, H. J. L. J. (Henri Jean Louis Joseph)