Hipped Roof Corner

Thus a hipped roof house has no gables or other vertical sides to the roof.

Hipped roof corner.

Hip roofs or so called hipped roofs are a special type of roof that has a very gentle slope at the sides with a downward pattern towards the side walls. All four sides of the roof are equally hipped at all corners and they meet at a single centralized peak forming a distinct pyramid. These pyramid roof structures are usually found atop gazebos and other pavilion buildings. Hip rafters are the diagonal rafters that span from the ridge at the top down to the corners of the roof.

If the wall plates are all square of equal lengths then the hipped rafters would form a pyramid shape like the picture above normally a roof is rectangle and there are more yellow common rafters. A hipped roof laid on top of a square structure creates a pyramid hip roof or the pavilion roof. The area where one section of roof meets other section is considered as the hip and the hip roof generally has very uniform angles without any vertical end.