A colonial wooden-framed house with a sloping, pitched roof that originates from New England, USA. A saltbox house is one-story high at the rear and two at the front, is clad with painted wooden weatherboarding and has shutters at the windows. This house style was popular in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries and acquired its name from the resemblance to the inlaid wooden box in which salt was stored. (Ambrose, 2008)
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