Colonial House With Gable Roof

The appeal of the colonial style home.

Colonial house with gable roof. Gambrel roofs are often called barn shaped because this roofing style is so often used on american barns. A romantic variant was the dutch colonial 1900 1940 virtually a new suburban style featuring cottage and colonial details and most importantly a gambrel roof often with flared eaves. See the rest of this home. The lower section of the roof slopes gently up.

Fanlights and sidelights embellished entries capped by a traditional gabled or hipped roof. Notice the steep gabled roof abruptly ending eaves exterior shutters and the symmetrical rectangle design all elements of british colonial architecture in the usa. In contrast the prototypical dutch house in early america was one and a half stories tall with a steep gable roof that flared toward the eaves. The dutch house in early america was one and a half stories tall.

Such sprung roofs provided deep overhangs often. They also often have a dutch door a split door where the top and bottom halves can open separately. Dutch colonial houses feature brick and stone construction and chimneys on each side of the house. A gambrel roof is a gable roof with two pitches.

Then the roofline angles in the form a steeper pitch. The modern farmhouse trend sometimes emerges in the details with some homeowners adding texture by using board and batten siding in the roof gables. Description colonial gable greenhouse designed to be beautiful and charming as well functional this colonial style greenhouse is a true amish masterpiece. They often have a steep gable roof or a gambrel roof.

Sometimes the roof has flared eaves that slope down to cover a porch. The greenhouse is constructe. Featuring loads of functional windows with half screens transoms a colonial dutch door shelving on three sides and rods for hanging. Above is a very classic british colonial style house in nantucket ma a really great place to visit btw.

Catalog dutch colonial side gable gambrel roof formal entry dutch colonial homes were a particularly popular subtype of traditional house style during the first quarter of the 20th century.