Roof Designs

Most period houses in the Victorian and Edwardian eras were roofed with Welsh slate; sometimes a porch was roofed with terracotta tiles. Arts and Crafts houses would have been roofed entirely in tiles.

Three roof 'patterns' are common:

Slate - with slate tiles, and clay tile or lead ridges
Clay - with clay tiles and clay tile ridges
Metal Sheet - with lead or zinc or copper

Roofs can be:

flat - typically surfaced with lead or zinc
single pitch
gable
Dutch gable
hipped
mansard
turreted