Hip Roof With A Flat Top

A hybrid of hipped and gable with the gable wall at the top and hipped lower down.

Hip roof with a flat top.

A standard rectangular hip roof has a horizontal top beam or board called a ridge that forms the peak of the roof at each end of the ridge two sloping boards angle out and down to the corners of the building. These are called hip rafters. Thus a hipped roof house has no gables or other vertical sides to the roof. A gable roof is placed at the top of a hip roof for more space and enhanced aesthetic appeal.

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 rafters that run from the long side walls to the ridge are called common rafters the rafters near the ends that meet at the hip rafters are called. A hip roof has slopes on all four sides. A dutch hip roof is a combination of both the hip roof and gable roof features.

The gable portion of a dutch hip roof is usually placed at the end of the roof ridge and sits on top of the plane of the hip roof. This style of roofing became popular in the united states during the 18 th century in the early georgian period. A square hip roof is shaped like a pyramid. The sides are all equal length and come together at the top to form a ridge.

The hip roof is the most commonly used roof style in north america after the gabled roof. Dutch gable gablet. Flat roofs are easier to construct than pitched roofs and require fewer building materials keeping costs down. It is sometimes also referred to as a dutch gable roof precisely because it contains both roof style features.