Hip roof
![A ranch-style house in Chicago with a hipped roof](/Images/godic/202502/19/Chicago_bungalow4543.jpg")
![A hip roof type house in Khammam city, India](/Images/godic/202502/19/Houses_at_Khammam_city_034543.JPG")
![A hip roof construction in Northern Australia showing multinail truss construction. The blue pieces are roll-formed metal roof battens or purlins](/Images/godic/202502/19/Hip-roof4543.jpg")
![A hip roof on a varied plan,](/Images/godic/202502/19/Rf-iso14543.gif")
A hip roof, hip-roof or hipped roof, is a type of roof where all sides slope downwards to the walls, usually with a fairly gentle slope (although a tented roof by definition is a hipped roof with steeply pitched slopes rising to a peak). Thus a hipped roof house has no gables or other vertical sides to the roof.