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Circular on plan and rises to terminate in a point; forms a regular cone shape. Design Style: Victorian/ Gothic/ Mediterranean

Conical roof or cone roof:

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A dome whose shape resembles an onion; often larger in diameter than the drum upon which they sit, and their height usually exceeds their width; these bulbous structures taper smoothly to a point; commonly seen in Russia. Design Style: Victorian/ Cottage/ Modern

Onion dome roof:

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A type of roof structure that looks like a half of a sphere; think of igloos. Design Style: Mediterranean/ Spanish/ Tuscan

Domed roof:

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A curved roof based on the "ogee" curve; two equal and opposite arcs of a circle joined into a smooth flowing curve that is both convex and concave at the same tim; curved lines of all steel roof construction. Design Style: Victorian/ Dutch Colonial

Ogee roof:

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Of traditional Russian architecture; half-cylinder shape . with elevated and sharpened upper part, resembling the sharpened kokoshnik; . in English, sometimes designated by the term "barrel roof .," but confusion may arise here, since outside Russia, barrel roofs are just simple curved Design Style: Traditional

Bochka roof:

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A type of spire typical of Romanesque church architecture of historic Rhineland; a pyramidal roof on towers of square plan. Design Style:

Helm roof, Rhenish helm:

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A multi-tiered and spired roof; commonly found in Burmese royal and Buddhist architecture; often with odd number tiers from three to seven; made of successive roofs, with a box-like structure between each roof. Design Style: Victorian

Pyatthat roof:

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A type of polygonal hipped roof with steeply-pitched slopes rising to a peak. Design Style: Tiny house/

Tented roof:

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Bell roofs may be round, multi-sided, or square; a similar-sounding feature added to other roof forms at the eaves or walls is bell-cast, sprocketed, or flared eaves; the roof flairs upward, resembling the common shape of the bottom of a bell. Design Style: Cottage/ Victorian/

Bell-cast roof (sprocketed, flared):

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A type of roof widely used in Japan both at Buddhist temples and Shinto shrines; composed of a true roof above and a second roof beneath, permitting an outer roof of a steep pitch to have eaves off a shallow pitch, jutting widely from the walls but without overhanging them; also used in modern style homes with a flat roof hanging over another flat roof. Design Style: Contemporary/ Modern/ Minimalism

Hidden roof

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A V-shaped roof resembling an open book; a kink separates the roof into two parts running towards each other at an obtuse angle; aka an "inverted pitch roof;" created when two adjacent gables are pitched inward towards the center, as opposed to rising to meet each other in an upward slope. Design Style: Modern/ Contemporary/

Butterfly roof (V-roof, London roof):

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Characterized by gambrel roofs withcurved eaves along the length of the house; modern versions built in the early 20th century are more accurately referred to as "Dutch Colonial Revival," a subtype of the Colonial Revival style. Design Style: Dutch Colonial/ Traditional

Dutch Colonial roof:

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Usually symmetrical, two-sided roof with two slopes on each side; the usual architectural term in 18th-century England and America was "Dutch roof;" the upper slope is positioned at a shallow angle, while the lower slope is steep. Design Style: Dutch colonial/ Traditional/ Ranch

Gambrel roof:

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A four-sided gambrel-style hip roof characterized by two slopes on each of its sides with the lower slope, punctured by dormer windows, at a steeper angle than the upper. Design Style: French style

Mansard roof (French roof or curb roof):

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A pitched extension of the main roof similar to a lean-to; an extension of the upper roof Design Style: Cape Cod/ French/ Traditiona;

Outshot or catslide roof:

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A gable roof with one side longer than the other and thus closer to the ground, unless the pitch on one side is altered. Design Style: Tudor/ Colonial/ Tiny Houses

Catslide roof

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A saltbox house is a traditional New England style house with a long, pitched roof that slopes down to the back; generally has one story in the back and two stories in the front; often seen with a catslide (aka saltbox catslide roof) that slopes down from a gable. Design Style: Mountain Modern/ Contemporary

Saltbox roof:

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A type of gable found in some traditional Japanese buildings; this gable is common in traditional architecture, including Japanese castles, Buddhist temples, and Shinto shrines; roofing materials such as tile and bark may be used as coverings; curved at the top. Design Style:Japanese

Karahafu roof:

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Google search Dutch gable wall for correct images; has a facade on one or multiple sides that looks like a decorative wall. Design Style: Dutch Colonial

Dutch gable, or gablet with wall:

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A roof with a small gable at the top of a hip roof (gablet is used in the UK, Australia, and parts of North America). Design Style: Craftsman/ Cottage/ Dutch/ Bungalow

Dutch gable, or Gablet roof:

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The result of joining two or more gabled roof sections together, forming a T or L shape for the simplest forms, or any number of more complex shapes; see also roof pitch, crow-stepped, corbie stepped, stepped gable: a gable roof with its end parapet walls below extended slightly upwards and shaped to resemble steps. Design Style: Modern/ Ranch/ Tudor

Cross gabled roof:

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A gabled roof that saddles or overlaps another roof line, commonly another gable, or slopes in the middle resembling a saddle. Design Style: Dutch Colonial/ Contemporary/ Colonial/ Craftsman

Saddleback roof:

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(ridged, dual-pitched, peaked, saddle, pack-saddle, saddleback, span roof): A simple roof design shaped like an inverted V; the most common roof style. Design Style: Modern/ Cape Cod/ Country French/ colonial/ Victorian/ Tudor

Gable roof

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A type of hip roof; a hip roof is called a pyramidal roof when all the sides of the roof are equal with the resulting roof forming a pyramid (pavilion roof: A hip roof on a square building). Design Style: Victorian/ Mountain Modern

Pyramidal/Pyramid roof:

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Has two intersecting hip sections that run perpendicular to each other; the cross hip roof allows for more complex house layout as opposed to the standard hip roof; the most popular variation is the L-shaped home with intersecting roofs forming a right angle. Design Style: Mediterrinean/ Modern/ Colonial

Cross hipped roof:

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