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Roof trusses

Hipped roof

A hipped roof slopes down on all sides, including the ends, so the building has no vertical gable walls.

Also known as hipped roof, hip roof, hipped end, half-hipped roof

The sloping ends are called hips. They make the roof more resistant to wind, give eaves on every side and a lower silhouette, but they are more complex to frame.

With trusses, the hipped ends are built from a hip set: stepped hip trusses, a hip girder and jack trusses. A half-hipped roof has only a small hip at the top of each gable.

Related terms
Hip trussHip trusses are a set of trusses of decreasing height that together form the sloping end of a hipped roof. Duo-pitch roofA duo-pitch (gable) roof has two slopes meeting at a central ridge, with a gable wall at each end. Girder trussA girder truss is a strengthened, often multi-ply truss that carries the load of other trusses or of a point load.
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