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HIPPED ROOF

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Originally appearing in Volume V13, Page 517 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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HIPPED ROOF  , the name given in

architecture to a roof which slopes down on all four sides instead of terminating on two sides against a vertical gable . Sometimes a compromise is made between the two,
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half the roof being hipped and half resting on the vertical wall; this gives much more
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room inside the roof, and externally a most picturesque effect, which is one of the
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great attractions of domestic architecture in the south of England, and is rarely found in other countries .

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