Slate Roof Patterns

Slate laid in multicolored decorative patterns was particularly well suited to the mansard roofs of the second empire style the steeply pitch roofs of the gothic revival and high victorian gothic styles and the many prominent roof planes and turrets associated with the queen anne style.

Slate roof patterns.

Occasionally for added ornamentation roofers would insert a few parallel courses of scalloped or beveled tiles into a roof of predominantly rectangular slate tiles. The above set of roofs were installed by brent ulisky and orion jenkins formerly of joseph jenkins inc. For layout reasons these patterns are most frequently incorporated into standard slate roofs. Patterned slate roofs by introducing slates of different colors or shapes in a specific design or in courses individual accents or banding can be created as part of the design characteristic of a slate roof.

These slates can be used alone or blended into a multicolored roof or an accent color for a slate roof pattern. There are indeed many choices in selecting slate roofing patterns so find the one with the best aesthetic potential. By varying the size shape color and even the pattern of how each tile is positioned allows for a wide range of profiles and designs. One of the unique characteristics of slate roofs is that slates can be used of different colors to create unique patterns thereby creating landmark roofs.

Old roofs of slate or wood were typically constructed of individual rectangular pieces offset and overlapped to shed water.