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Identifying feature

Catslide roof

A roof with one side extended much lower than the other, often covering a row of ground-floor rooms at the back. It gives New England saltbox houses of the 1600s and 1700s their shape.

a sign of these styles

Hoxie House, Sandwich, Massachusetts: an example of Saltbox Saltbox c. 1650–1800 A gabled house with one long rear roof slope sweeping nearly to the ground.

often seen with

Clapboard siding Long, narrow horizontal wooden boards called clapboards, each overlapping the one below, nailed over a wood… Prominent chimney A large chimney built on an exterior wall, often of patterned brick or grouped into clusters of stacks… Sash window A window made of one or more glass-filled frames, called sashes, that slide up and down in grooves. Shingle siding Wood shingles, small overlapping pieces of split or sawn wood, covering the outer walls as well as the roof. Steep gable The triangular upper part of an end wall, framed by the two slopes of a steep roof.