The dormer itself has its own roof which can be a hip eyebrow shed segmental or gable roof depending on the architectural design.
Gable roof shed dormer.
When comparing roof types you see a lot of gable and hip roofs but a contemporary option with a simple design is a shed roof.
Flared gable photo by nancy andrews.
Here the addition of a shed dormer to an attic space not only floods the once dark room with light but also provides much needed headroom.
Sharp gable roofs are a characteristic of the gothic and classical greek styles of architecture the opposite or inverted form of a gable roof is a v roof or butterfly roof.
Wall dormer as opposed to the dormer being set part way up the slope of the roof this is a dormer whose face is coplanar with the face of the wall below.
This is basically a gabled dormer but the dormer roof flares out in the same way that the main roof on a house often flares out to accommodate a porch or an addition.
Gable dormer window view of windows of a home image credit.
On the dormer the flared roof helps shade the windows a boon when dormers face south or west in regions where summers are hot.
A dormer is a roofed structure often containing a window that projects vertically beyond the plane of a pitched roof.
Gable roof with shed dormer a shed dormer is a popular addition because it extends living space with height and width.
A shed dormer s eave line is parallel to the eave line of the roof.
It isn t on the gable end of the house as it.
A dormer window is a form of roof window.