Mission Style Roof
The saltbox is sometimes called a house style a house shape or a type of roof.
Mission style roof. Also known as double roman roofs the mission style is distinct for its pronounced ridges or ribs that stick out far more than any other tile roof style. Mission style with pans and covers. The mission revival was one result of a preservation movement that began in the 1880s and was popularized by the southern pacific railroad s decision to build mission style depots all over the southwest.
The missions style of necessity and security evolved around an enclosed courtyard using massive adobe walls with broad unadorned plaster surfaces limited fenestration and door piercing low pitched roofs with projecting wide eaves and non flammable clay roof tiles and thick arches springing from piers. Mission houses are most common in california and the southwest. Interlocking shingle style also with locking tabs on the sides and top.
It s a modification of a gabled roof. Tile roofing pattern styles. Mission tile roofs also known as spanish tile roofs are believed to have inherited its architectural cues from the mission san antonio de padua.
The look of these tiles is distinctly mediterranean. There are four 4 common popular styles or patterns of clay and concrete roof tiles these are. And spanish style profiled like the letter s so each piece functions as both a pan and a cover.
