gambrel roof

NOUN
  1. a gable roof with two slopes on each side and the lower slope being steeper
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How To Use gambrel roof In A Sentence

  • My husband and I are building a workshop and we want a gambrel roof to house various woodworking and craft projects.
  • The Warner House, a three-story building with gambrel roof and luthern windows, is as fine and substantial an exponent of the architecture of the period as you are likely to meet with anywhere in New England. An Old Town By the Sea
  • A glance upward through the ceiling area reveals the huge cross timbers, and the complex joinery of the gambrel roof system.
  • ‘I grew up in a home like this,’ she reminisced as she drove by a brick house with a gambrel rooftop.
  • Though homes with gambrel roofs are popularly called Dutch Colonial, there is debate over the origins of the roof style.
  • His five-bay building, with its glazed header Flemish bond brick facade had a gambrel roof typical of local vernacular architecture.
  • This one has a gambrel roof, wide shed roof dormers, and a shed roof over the porch.
  • Besides its unique appearance a gambrel roof also serves to maximize the usable floor space in the attic.
  • Between the 1760's and 1770's the gambrel roofs fell out of favor and were converted into a second story and a gable roof with or without dormers.
  • This barn has a gambrel roof, that is its roof has a central ridge at the top, and the upper-level area is expanded by two additional ridges, one on either side of the central ridge.
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