With their roomy size and eye-pleasing symmetry, Colonial-style homes remain one of the most enduring residential ...

Dutch Gable Roof: A dutch gable features a partial hip that leads to a small gable before reaching the roof's ridge. As the name suggests, this is considered a hybrid of hip and gable styles.

The parapet gable, crow stepped gable, clipped gable and Dutch gable are European in origin and found most commonly in Central and Northern European countries, especially England, Scotland ...

Gable is the commonest style. The design involves two sides of a roof coming together at the peak to form a ridge. PHOTOs/Ismail Kezaala. The style one settles for relies on a variety of factors ...

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.

The asymmetric roof was designed as a reinterpretation of a traditional Dutch gable – also known as a gablet roof – which typically is a hipped roof with a small gable at the top.

A large gable roof with white-painted rafters sails over Senior Shelter, a house cloaked in black timber by i29 for an elderly couple in the Netherlands.