Hip roofs use sloping roof sections for all four ... The sloping design also reduces your ability to add solar panels. You may have half the space for panels as you would with a gable roof.

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.

“This building had a very unique roof form. It’s actually one of the only freedman’s cottages in the city that had this ...