Roof Style

[Neal Lewis]

What would you call the name of this roof? I refer to it as a clipped gable, but I've also read the name jerkinhead as a description...

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[belvedere]

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[kurt]

Clipped gable or hipped gable. Jerkinhead is the correct name, but it's so rarely used (like, never).

I like the eyebrow dormer.

[fqp25]

Found this looking into jerkinhead roofing.

jerkinhead/clipped gable

Frank

[Jerry Simon]

I have a memory trick to remember jerkinhead...I just picture a guy sitting on the roof while.....while....uhmm - nevermind.

[Bill Kibbel]

Clipped gable is the correct name for the style of the roof.

Jerkinhead is the name of the little triangle piece above the gable ends.

[Jim Baird]

I've heard the dogears called Dutch hips with an eyebrow dormer in the middle. Love the landscaping.

[Jim Katen]

Originally posted by Jim Baird

I've heard the dogears called Dutch hips with an eyebrow dormer in the middle. Love the landscaping.

I think of a Dutch hip as a hip roof with a little bitty gable sticking up out of it. Kind of the opposite of clipped gable.

- Jim Katen, Oregon

[Bill Kibbel]

Originally posted by Jim Katen

Originally posted by Jim Baird

I've heard the dogears called Dutch hips with an eyebrow dormer in the middle. Love the landscaping.

I think of a Dutch hip as a hip roof with a little bitty gable sticking up out of it. Kind of the opposite of clipped gable.

- Jim Katen, Oregon

Jim is correct, although his description was so technically exhaustive, I had to read it several times.