saltbox house

saltbox house

saltbox house In colonial New England, a timber-framed house, commonly two and one-half stories high, having a hall-and-parlor plan; gables at each end wall; a sloping roof with slope on the rear side of the ridge much longer and less steep than the slope on the front side. This roof contour gave the house a shape resembling a box for holding salt used at that time in the British colonies.