Old Roof Styles

Today mansard style roofs are occasionally used in one and two story apartment buildings restaurants and neo eclectic houses.

Old roof styles.

Compare with bell cast eaves. The a frame is very easy to identify. Turret top left. Onion dome or rather an imperial roof.

Roofs were clad too in wood shingles or even metal. It s steep pointed roof which extends all the way to the ground or close to the ground. The pale gray metal finish on this standing seam roof offers a welcome contrast to the textured. Decorative iron roof cresting goes hand in hand with the style.

Top 20 roof types and pros cons roof styles design architecture flat. Most flat roofs are not really 100 flat but rather they are low sloped roofs that appear flat but have a little. Circular bell roof bell shaped ogee philibert de l orme roof. De l orme also used bow roofs see below.

The term gable refers to the triangular shape that is formed when the two pitched areas of your. These houses often had slate roofs which might be ornamented with multi color slates arranged in patterns. Historically also called a compass roof. In the united states second empire or mansard was a victorian style popular from the 1860s through the 1880s.

The roof might be straight sided convex or concave and broken by dormers. Scalloped copper shingles follow the tight curves of this conical roof.