Hipped Roof Line

A hip roof on a rectangular plan has four faces.

Hipped roof line.

A square hip roof is shaped like a pyramid. Hip roofs on houses could have two triangular sides and two trapezoidal ones. They are almost always at the same pitch or slope which makes them symmetrical about the centerlines. A hipped roof is sloped in two pairs of directions e g.

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. See above cross hipped. This style of roofing became popular in the united states during the 18 th century in the early georgian period. A hip roof or hipped roof is a type of roof design where all roof sides slope downward toward the walls where the walls of the house sit under the eaves on each side of the roof.

Thus a hipped roof house has no gables or other vertical sides to the roof. N s and e w compared to the one pair of direction e g. Hip roofs or so called hipped roofs are a special type of roof that has a very gentle slope at the sides with a downward pattern towards the side walls. A hybrid of a gable and a hipped roof.

See above dutch gable gablet. N s or e w for a gable roof. Hip rafters are the diagonal rafters that span from the ridge at the top down to the corners of the roof. The hip roof is the most commonly used roof style in north america after the gabled roof.

If the wall plates are all square of equal lengths then the hipped rafters would form a pyramid shape like the picture above normally a roof is rectangle and there are more yellow common rafters. The result of joining two or more hip roof sections together forming a t or l shape for the simplest forms or any number of more complex shapes.