Scalloped copper shingles follow the tight curves of this conical roof.
Old roof styles.
De l orme also used bow roofs see below.
Historically also called a compass roof.
Today mansard style roofs are occasionally used in one and two story apartment buildings restaurants and neo eclectic houses.
The term gable refers to the triangular shape that is formed when the two pitched areas of your.
The roof might be straight sided convex or concave and broken by dormers.
Circular bell roof bell shaped ogee philibert de l orme roof.
Conical roof or cone roof.
Top 20 roof types and pros cons roof styles design architecture flat.
Bow roof rainbow gothic gothic arch and ship s bottom roof.
Turret top left.
Decorative iron roof cresting goes hand in hand with the style.
Roofs were clad too in wood shingles or even metal.
Onion dome or rather an imperial roof.
It s steep pointed roof which extends all the way to the ground or close to the ground.
The a frame is very easy to identify.
These houses often had slate roofs which might be ornamented with multi color slates arranged in patterns.
In the united states second empire or mansard was a victorian style popular from the 1860s through the 1880s.
Compare with bell cast eaves.