Saltbox Style Roof

We might call it the saltbox but there s no doubt this style is just perfect.

Saltbox style roof.

Now you will see this type of rooftop design on garages sheds and outbuildings rather than on homes. Rather of sloping to the same degree one side includes the entire route to the house s first floor. However instead of sloping to the same length one side reaches all the way to the first. 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. The short side typically has a low slope while the long side has a steep slope. Today there are not a lot of newly constructed homes that have this type of roof design. In its simplest form a saltbox roof is a gable roof with asymmetrical planes one long and one short side.

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. Saltbox roofs look like a patched gable style roof with two sides sloping outwards from a central ridge. With its asymmetrical roof and restrained facade the saltbox house has become an icon of new england s coastal areas. A saltbox roof is a design that was used extensively in the colonial era.

When colonial era families first developed the style though they weren t aiming for aesthetic appeal.