Hip roof

This article is about the roof shapes involving a hip. For other uses, see Rafter.
A raised bungalow in Chicago with a hipped roof
A hip roof type house in Khammam city, India

A hip roof, hip-roof[1] or hipped roof, is a type of roof where all sides slope downward to the walls, usually with a fairly gentle slope, with variants including tented roofs and others.[2] Thus, a hipped roof has no gables or other vertical sides to the roof.

A square hip roof is shaped like a pyramid. Hip roofs on houses may have two triangular sides and two trapezoidal ones. A hip roof on a rectangular plan has four faces. They are almost always at the same pitch or slope, which makes them symmetrical about the centerlines. Hip roofs often have a consistent level fascia, meaning that a gutter can be fitted all around. Hip roofs often have dormer slanted sides.

  1. ^ Curl, James Stevens (2006). Oxford Dictionary of Architecture and Landscape Architecture, 2nd ed., OUP, Oxford and New York, p. 364. ISBN 978-0-19-860678-9.
  2. ^ "Different Types of Hipped Roof Design - JTC Roofing - News". JTC Roofing Contractors Ltd. 26 January 2016. Retrieved 17 July 2024.