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Old 2/8/10, 8:50 PM
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What type of roof is this up top? It had the hatch up top. House built in 1880 or Jae Williams' DOB

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Old 2/8/10, 9:03 PM
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cant tell from your pic.....if it had a hatch did you open it and take a look? I would have walked the top and lower sections on this one! yes I carry a ladders that tall!
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Mansard roof: A type of roof containing two sloping planes of different pitch on each of four sides. The lower plane has a much steeper pitch than the upper, often approaching vertical. It contains no Gables.

Thats what I thought, but the planes weren't very steep. It was a pyramid hip type with a flat top?
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Mansard roof: A type of roof containing two sloping planes of different pitch on each of four sides. The lower plane has a much steeper pitch than the upper, often approaching vertical. It contains no Gables.

Thats what I thought, but the planes weren't very steep. It was a pyramid hip type with a flat top?

You mean type as in hip, gable, ect...lol
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Modified Hip Roof.
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Modified Hip Roof.

Agree.

This is a Mansard roof...

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Modified Hip Roof.
Agreed modified hip
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