A gable roof's simple two-slope design allows it to easily shed rain and snow, assuming the roof has the appropriate pitch ...

Q: We are designing a pitched roof for our 1950s-era home that has an almost-flat torch-down roof. We want to update the look and get a better roofing system.

But even before the late-19th century, explains architectural historian John Murphey, “The pitched, or gable, roof form was historically part of the Northern New Mexican log outbuilding ...

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Hurricane prevention experts say the high-pitched, gable roofs in Massachusetts are not built to withstand a hurricane. They are built for heavy snowfall.