A saltbox has just one story in the back and two stories in the front.
Saltbox roof house.
We may call it the saltbox but there s no denying that this style is simply sweet.
With its asymmetrical roof and restrained facade the saltbox house has become an icon of new england s coastal areas.
Regardless of the period however saltbox houses were generally built to expand living space for families and help them weather new england s harsh climate.
Salt box roofs feel like a painted gable style roof with two sides of a central ridge sloping outwards.
The saltbox architectural style was born as an adaptation to the harsh realities of early colonial life.
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.
A salt box house defining feature is its roof.
This also provided an additional.
Saltbox homes also boast plenty of storage space typically in the cramped triangle of dead space under the extended roof just above the ground floor addition.
In american architecture a saltbox house is a wooden frame building with a distinctive asymmetrical roof.
Early saltbox house examples from the 17th century are often additions.