A dictionary of architecture and building; biographical, historical and descriptive (1901)
Sturgis, Russell, 1836-1909 · New York, Macmillan · leaf 242
imilar feature,and situated at the end of the ridgepole in ahipped roof. The hip rafters meet at thatpoint, and sometimes in their framing requirea central vertical piece, of which the hip knobis the natural decorative termination. The hipknob is, however, more commonly a mere orna-ment of the form… … Hip: Roof with Four Hips, Nkukirche, Switzerland, 1734. and one plane cuts or intersects another. Thus,in a double pitch roof, where there are no ga-bles, and where the ridge is shorter than eitherof the wall plates which nm parallel to it, tlieroof falls back at a slope above the end walls, (w lid…
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