A dictionary of architecture and building : biographical, historical, and descriptive (1902)
Sturgis, Russell, 1836-1909 · New York : The Macmillan company · leaf 227
aroof, as on a building of irregular plan, mayhave more hips than four and often alternatingwith valleys. ROOF gables, each of which is truncated halfway upor tlicreabout so that the roof is iiijipiMl above.It nuiy be otherwise explained as a hipped roof,of whicli the hips starting from the ridge… … Boof: Early English; Sol.^r of House at Charney, Berkshire; r. 1270; with CamberedCross Beams supporting Posts and a Purlin Pl.^-TE by Direct Resistance to Pre.ssure;l.iTH Century. Homogeneous Roof. One in which the samemass nf m;iterial furnishes the outer pitch forsiiedding rain water and the…
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