A square hip roof is shaped like a pyramid.
Jerkinhead roof bungalow.
A hip roof hip roof or hipped roof is a type of roof where all sides slope downwards to the walls usually with a fairly gentle slope although a tented roof by definition is a hipped roof with steeply pitched slopes rising to a peak.
The end of a roof that is hipped sloped for only part of its height leaving a truncated gable.
Thus a hipped roof house has no gables or other vertical sides to the roof.
Though this word has uncertain origins the oed explains that it could have been a variation of kirkin head in which we find kirk an old scots variation of the word church.
A jerkinhead roof may also be called a.
Perhaps sloped gables first.
Feb 7 2014 a jerkinhead roof has a hipped gable.
Jerkin head roof half hipped roof clipped gable.
A jerkinhead roof may also be called a jerkin head roof a half hipped roof a clipped gable or even a jerkinhead gable.
These names all attempt to describe the roof as a.
Jerkinhead roofs commonly seen on bungalows and cottages are essentially a gable roof with clipped peaks.
Jerkinhead roofs are sometimes found on american bungalows and cottages small american houses from the 1920s and 1930s and assorted victorian house styles.