What is a hip-to-gable enlargement?
A. A hip-to-gable enlargement refers to the removal of the side roof slope, including the ‘eaves’ and its replacement with a full gable end, normally whereby the new roof slopes thus formed are co-planer with the existing front and back roof slopes. A hip-to-gable enlargement can thus be distinguished from, say, a dormer-on-hip enlargement whereby the eaves and hips usually remain in place and the dormer emerges through the side roof slope itself.
