They add structural frames for windows and offer additional living space in your attic.
Gable dormer hip roof.
Hipped dormers maintain consistency with hipped roofs and add visual contrast to gable roofs.
Hip to gable dormer loft conversions are for properties with a sloping side roof hipped roof which means that the side of your roof slopes inwards towards the ridge chimney.
The roof dormer is an architectural structure protruding out from a slanting roof.
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A dutch gable is a hybrid of the gable and hip roof.
A hip to gable style conversion would change the shape of the roof by extending the existing ridge and giving you a much larger loft area.
Gambrel roof a multi sided polygonal hip roof with steeply pitched slopes that rise to a peak similar to what you d see on a church steeple.
Hip to gable loft conversion.
Gable and hip dormers are most the commonly used architectural styles of dormers.
The point at which the three sloping sides join is over the center of the dormer rather than at its front as with a gable dormer.
Box gable roof a type of hip roof where each side includes two different sloping angles with the lower angle much steeper than the upper angle.