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c1405 (c1390) G. Chaucer Miller's Tale (Hengwrt) (2003) l. 649 He hadde yboght hym knedyng tubbes thre And hadde hem hanged in the roof aboue And þ^t he preyed hem for goddes loue To sitten in the roof per compaignye.

c1454 R. Pecock Folewer to Donet 91 (MED) Þou ouȝtist sette þee no lower þan in þe roof of an house forto defende þee fro greete flodis.

1584 W. Warner Pan his Syrinx vii Entering into an inner roome,..looking vp by chaunce into the roofe, they espie hanging smocke-dyed three quarters of a man, as it seemed to them, not long before so dismembred.

1631 J. Weever Anc. Funerall Monuments 527 These two Couents had but one Church in common, the Nunnes had their Church aloft in the roofe, and the brethren beneath vpon the ground.

1685 C. Cotton tr. M. de Montaigne Ess. I. xxx. 370 Their Beds are of Cotton, hung swinging in the Roof, like our Seamens Hammocks.

1749 W. Halfpenny New Syst. Archit. Delineated 20/1 The cellars are intended under the body of the house and there may be garrets in the roof.

1785 Crit. Rev. Sept. 173 A stair-case that led up to the rooms in the roof.

1849 C. Dickens David Copperfield (1850) x. 107 I..passed the night at Peggotty's, in a little room in the roof.

1882 Cent. Mag. Feb. 512/1 Others live in a single room in the roof.

1905 Antiquary Sept. 387/2 Climbing into the roof, or exploring the crypt, one can gain an idea of the fresco work with which it [sc. the church]..was once covered.

1921 E. F. Stevens Amer. Hosp. of 20th Cent. (rev. ed.) xii. 239/1 The roof contains the animal houses and experimentation laboratories.

1993 Collins Compl. DIY Man. (new ed.) viii. 349/2 Cold-water storage cistern... Positioned in the roof, it provides sufficient ‘head’ or pressure to feed the whole house.

2008 Daily Tel. (Nexis) 15 Jan. (Sport section) 23 I like my work as a pest controller. I've been called out for snakes, rats in roofs and lofts.