A dictionary of architecture and building : biographical, historical, and descriptive (1902)
Sturgis, Russell, 1836-1909 · New York : The Macmillan company · leaf 241
feature,and situated at the end of the ridgepole in ahipped roof. The hip raftens meet at tha*^point, and sometimes in their framing reipiirea central vertical piece, of which the liip knoliis the natural decorative termination. The hipknob is, however, more commonly a mere orna-ment of the form… … Hip: Roof with Fouk Hips, Neukirche, 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 jjlates which run parallel to it, theroof falls back at a slope above the end walls,(which…
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