peaked roof

English

A building with a peaked roof in the sense of rising to form a ridge

A tower with a pyramidal peaked roof. The view includes a range of other, less conspicuous peaked roof shapes.

Thatch, as a medium, is suited to the construction of conical peaked roofs, as in rondavels

Noun

peaked roof (plural peaked roofs or peaked rooves)

1. Any roof with at least two pitches rising to form a peak, said peak in the form either of a ridge or a point. Types of pitched roof include: the open gable roof, box gable roof, Dutch gable roof, hip roof, jerkinhead roof, gambrel roof, mansard roof, saltbox roof, pyramid hip roof or any other polygonal hip roof; but do not include the shed roof, or the butterfly roof.
2. More generally, any roof rising to either a ridge or a point, typically either conical, polygonal, or with its pitches forming a pyramidal top.