Old Roof Styles

Scalloped copper shingles follow the tight curves of this conical roof.

Old roof styles.

These houses often had slate roofs which might be ornamented with multi color slates arranged in patterns. The pale gray metal finish on this standing seam roof offers a welcome contrast to the textured. Roofs were clad too in wood shingles or even metal. Top 20 roof types and pros cons roof styles design architecture flat.

De l orme also used bow roofs see below. Conical roof or cone roof. Compare with bell cast eaves. The roof might be straight sided convex or concave and broken by dormers.

The a frame is very easy to identify. Decorative iron roof cresting goes hand in hand with the style. Circular bell roof bell shaped ogee philibert de l orme roof. Today mansard style roofs are occasionally used in one and two story apartment buildings restaurants and neo eclectic houses.

In the united states second empire or mansard was a victorian style popular from the 1860s through the 1880s. Bow roof rainbow gothic gothic arch and ship s bottom roof. It s steep pointed roof which extends all the way to the ground or close to the ground. Turret top left.

The term gable refers to the triangular shape that is formed when the two pitched areas of your. Most flat roofs are not really 100 flat but rather they are low sloped roofs that appear flat but have a little.