Jerkinhead
Also called Clipped gable, Hipped gable, Shreadhead
A roof having a sloping (hipped) end cutting off a gable
Found on Stick style ...
Jerkinhead Roof
Picture Dictionary of Roof Styles: Jerkinhead Roof
The Harriet Beecher Stowe House in Hartford, Connecticut has a hipped gable, or jerkinhead.
Jerkinhead - Gable roof with hipped end; also called hipped gable
Jutty - Upper story projecting beyond the one below; also called jetty
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Most buildings in the style are irregular in form, with hip, gable, or clipped gable (jerkinhead) roofs, and projecting bay windows, towers, and dormer windows.
hipped - a roof with four uniformly pitched or sloping sides
jerkinhead - a gable roof with a hipped end
mansard - two slopes on each of its four sides; one part very steep and curved, often with dormers ...
 See also: House, Jerkin, Architecture, Gable, Dormer
  
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