lean-to roof
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It was a thankful Constance that lay down beside Damaris that night, beneath the lean-to roof.
From A Pilgrim Maid A Story of Plymouth Colony in 1620 by Marion Ames Taggart
The western alley is part of an interesting fifteenth-century house which is built over it, and the south alley has a lean-to roof.
From Bell's Cathedrals: The Cathedral Church of Gloucester [2nd ed.] A Description of Its Fabric and A Brief History of the Espicopal See by H. J. L. J. (Henri Jean Louis Joseph) Massé
A low archway of the same rough stone was the entrance, and immediately above it a lean-to roof sloped up to the top of the wall, which just here had been carried a little higher.
From Wood and Garden Notes and thoughts, practical and critical, of a working amateur by Gertrude Jekyll
The large, well-built stone house of Daniel Sherman was still standing, made after the usual pattern, two stories high with a lean-to roof in the rear, and with low ceilings.
From Recollections of Forty Years in the House, Senate and Cabinet An Autobiography. by John Sherman
The chicken-house, a shack with a lean-to roof against the barn, was near and he stood by her as she looked in at the open door.
From The Cottage of Delight A Novel by Will N. (William Nathaniel) Harben
