Hipped Roof Line

A hip roof hip roof or hipped roof is a type of roof where all sides slope downwards to the walls usually with a fairly gentle slope.

Hipped roof line.

The result of joining two or more hip roof sections together forming a t or l shape for the simplest forms or any number of more complex shapes. N s and e w compared to the one pair of direction e g. See above cross hipped. See above dutch gable gablet.

This style of roofing became popular in the united states during the 18 th century in the early georgian period. A hip roof on a rectangular plan has four faces. N s or e w for a gable roof. The reverse hybrid of a hipped and a gable roof.

Hip roofs on houses could have two triangular sides and two trapezoidal ones. Hip rafters are the diagonal rafters that span from the ridge at the top down to the corners of the roof. Thus a hipped roof house has no gables or other vertical sides to the roof. Hip roofs or so called hipped roofs are a special type of roof that has a very gentle slope at the sides with a downward pattern towards the side walls.

The area where one section of roof meets other section is considered as the hip and the hip roof generally has very uniform angles without any vertical end. The hip roof is the most commonly used roof style in north america after the gabled roof. A hybrid of a gable and a hipped roof. If the wall plates are all square of equal lengths then the hipped rafters would form a pyramid shape like the picture above normally a roof is rectangle and there are more yellow common rafters.

A square hip roof is shaped like a pyramid. They are almost always at the same pitch or slope which makes them symmetrical about the centerlines.