noun

• 1A roof with two sides, each of which has a shallower slope above a steeper one.

  ‘The home is two stories with a gambrel (barn-style) roof and a covered porch we enjoy year-round.’

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  • ‘His five-bay building, with its glazed header Flemish bond brick facade had a gambrel roof typical of local vernacular architecture.’
  • ‘‘I grew up in a home like this,’ she reminisced as she drove by a brick house with a gambrel rooftop.’
  • ‘Please help us celebrate the grace of timber frames, the tactile shapeliness of hand-hewn logs, and the serene experience of soft beams of light filtering through the high ceiling of a gambrel loft.’
  • ‘Besides its unique appearance a gambrel roof also serves to maximize the usable floor space in the attic.’
  • ‘My husband and I are building a workshop and we want a gambrel roof to house various woodworking and craft projects.’
  • ‘For example, even the adoption of a new gambrel roof system with stud walls and a truss roof did not wholly eliminate the old heavy timber mortise-and-tenon construction system.’
  • ‘Though homes with gambrel roofs are popularly called Dutch Colonial, there is debate over the origins of the roof style.’
  • ‘Only in later periods, when Queen Anne was superseded by Colonial Revival and Colonial Imitation, did gambrel roofs become synonymous with Dutch architecture.’
  • ‘If a gambrel roof home had a third floor, it was used for bedrooms and storage.’
  • ‘This ten page plan set for three different gambrel roof barn designs: 24’ wide, 30’ wide and 38’ wide.’
  • ‘Michigan is known for its large barns built in the late 1800s, with gambrel roofs featuring lower, steeper slopes an upper, flatter ones on each side, he explains.’
  • ‘The brick and stone courthouse with gambrel roofs, built in 1903, has some venerable old jacaranda trees for shade.’
  • ‘Between the 1760's and 1770's the gambrel roofs fell out of favor and were converted into a second story and a gable roof with or without dormers.’
  • ‘When you create this combination of shed roofs and gambrel roofs you get into a situation where the roofs join in a very complicated manner.’
  • ‘This one has a gambrel roof, wide shed roof dormers, and a shed roof over the porch.’
  • ‘These notations offer architectural information otherwise unavailable about these early county buildings: many were 1 1/2 stories, with gambrel roofs and modest dimensions.’
  • ‘This barn has a gambrel roof, that is its roof has a central ridge at the top, and the upper-level area is expanded by two additional ridges, one on either side of the central ridge.’
  • ‘A glance upward through the ceiling area reveals the huge cross timbers, and the complex joinery of the gambrel roof system.’

  1. 1.1British A hipped roof with a small gable forming the upper part of each end.
     ‘Others have steep gambrel roofs or hipped roofs, with or without porches.’
     More example sentences

     • ‘This mostly stone two-story house has a Dutch gambrel hipped roof.’