Illustrated Architecture Dictionary

Jerkinhead
Also called Clipped gable, Hipped gable, Shreadhead

A roof having a sloping (hipped) end cutting off a gable

Found on Stick style

Examples from Buffalo architecture

• Illustration above: George L. Williams House
  
  
• Granger House, 208 Elmwood Ave.
  
  
• 53 Lexington Avenue
  
  
• 40 Capen Blvd.
  

Other examples:

• Croisette, Switzerland

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