A dictionary of architecture and building; biographical, historical and descriptive (1901)
Sturgis, Russell, 1836-1909 · New York, Macmillan · leaf 222
eases aroot, as on a buihhng of irregnlar phui, mayhave more hips than four and often alternatingwith valleys. ROOF gables, eaeh of wliieh is truneated halfway upor thereabout so that the roof is hipped above.It may be otherwise explained as a hipjjed i-oof,of whieh the hijis starting from the… … Roof: Early E.vglish ; Solar of House at Charney, Berkshire; r. 1270; with CamberedCross Beams supporting Posts and a Purlin Plate by Direct Resistance to Pressure;13th Century. Homogeneous Roof. One in which the samemass uf material furnishes the outer pitch forshedding rain water and the surface…
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