There are several different types of roof construction, and they are generally called after the most important structural element, i.e. the one on which all other elements are dependant. Illustrated overleaf are, Crown-post, King-post, Queens-post, Hammerbeam and Cruck. The principal elements are as follows: (Siker, 2018)
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