a Chalet
To shed snow.
it called the saltbox
Chalet
Most houses have sloping roofs including Ranch, Colonial, cottage, saltbox...
The sloping roof of a house is covered in an overlapping covering of slates or tiles, forming a waterproof weather protection.
A roof that is pitched off horizontal to allow the runoff of water, snow, or ice.
Yes - particularly if you have a tin roof. While possums are agile in trees, when they are running across a surface such as a flat or sloping roof they are particularly noisy and heavy-footed. Similarly, they can be quite noisy when travelling through a house's roof space.
It's a Leanto yay pogo
Valley
Sloping roofs are self-draining from rain and snow, and less likely to leak.
The houses in the terai regions and in Goa and Mangalore have sloping roofs because there is very heavy rainfall. If there is no slanting roof, the water of the rain will collect there which weaken the strength of roofs.