HIPPED ROOF  , the name given in See also:

• ARCHITECTURE (Lat. architectura, from the Gr. ap)(LTEKrwv, a master-builder)

architecture to a roof which slopes down on all four sides instead of terminating on two sides against a See also:

• VERTICAL (from Lat. vertex, highest point)

vertical gable . Sometimes a See also:

• COMPROMISE (pronounced compromize; through Fr. from Lat. compromittere)

compromise is made between the two, See also:

• HALF

half the roof being hipped and half resting on the vertical See also:

• WALL (O. Eng. weal, weall, Mid. Eng. wal, wane, adapted from Lat. vallum, rampart; the original O. Eng. word for a wall was wag or tenth)
• WALL, RICHARD (1694-1778)

wall; this gives much more See also:

• ROOM

room inside the roof, and externally a most picturesque effect, which is one of the See also:

• GREAT

great attractions of domestic architecture in the See also:

• SOUTH
• SOUTH, ROBERT (1634–1716)

south of See also:

• ENGLAND
• ENGLAND, THE CHURCH OF

England, and is rarely found in other countries .