Saltbox Style Roof

Now you will see this type of rooftop design on garages sheds and outbuildings rather than on homes.

Saltbox style roof.

On a two story home the long side may span the height from the ridge to edge which can be one long roofing plane or divided into two. Salt box roofs feel like a painted gable style roof with two sides of a central ridge sloping outwards. In its simplest form a saltbox roof is a gable roof with asymmetrical planes one long and one short side. However instead of sloping to the same length one side reaches all the way to the first.

A saltbox house is a traditional new england style of house with a long pitched roof that slopes down to the back generally a wooden frame house. Rather of sloping to the same degree one side includes the entire route to the house s first floor. Today there are not a lot of newly constructed homes that have this type of roof design. A saltbox roof is a design that was used extensively in the colonial era.

We might call it the saltbox but there s no doubt this style is just perfect. The short side typically has a low slope while the long side has a steep slope. A saltbox has just one story in the back and two stories in the front. The saltbox architectural style was born as an adaptation to the harsh realities of early colonial life.

A salt box house defining feature is its roof.