purlin roof

It is a two story, heavy timber frame structure with queen post and purlin roof framing.

The house is covered with board and batten siding and has a purlin roof.

On a purlin roof the ridge posts carry the ridge purlin.

A purlin roof consists of horizontal logs that are notched into the gable-wall logs.

Log cabins were constructed with either a purlin roof structure or a rafter roof structure.

The purlin roofs found in rural settings and locations, where milled lumber was not available, often were covered with long hand-split shingles.

Some time periods/regions within New England contain certain framing elements such as common purlin roofs, five sided ridge beams, plank-frame construction and plank-wall construction.

It is of six bays and is built of rubblestone with ashlar quoins, and was re-roofed in 1779 with a double purlin roof.

Common purlin roofs in North America are found in areas settled by Englishmen and may have been a new invention in the Massachusetts Bay Colony.

Dutch wall framing is virtually always built in bents and the three basic types of roof framing are the rafter roof, purlin roof and ridge-post roof.

This revised dating means that the Coffin House may no longer be the earliest example of the principal rafter/common purlin roof, although even so it is certainly one of the oldest extant examples.

No examples of framed buildings with common purlin roofs have been reported in England, however some stone barns in England have vertically boarded, common purlin roofs.

The purpose of a common purlin roof may be they allow a "board roof", that is a roof of nothing but vertically laid boards with seams covered with battens or another layer of boards.