Slate roof with lead hips and a glass lantern
About this job
Natural slate on a hipped roof, with the hips covered in lead and the slating cut and dressed around a glass roof lantern. Getting slate and lead to meet cleanly around a lantern and a tall chimney stack takes care, and those joints are where many older roofs start to leak.
The photos run from close-ups of the lead hips to the whole roof from the air.
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Lead-covered hips meeting above the glass roof lantern. -
Slate and lead hips around the lantern, close up. -
The slate roof and lantern from the side. -
The hipped slate roof beside the tall chimney stack. -
The slate roof from the air, with the lantern and chimneys.
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