It's also difficult to get proper ventilation and windows in an attic space with a hip roof because you don't have the vertical side walls. There are different types of dormers you can add to give ...

The works included extensive interior renovations, and a new two-storey rear extension with a large dormer window that punctuates the roofline. The pitched, hipped-roof of the new extension was ...

There is no shortage of alternative and sometimes strange names to describe this unusual roof detail — including shreadhead, half-hipped roof, clipped gable, Dutch gable and snub gable.