Foursquare House With Attic

There is a large attic that when finished the home could be considered a 2 story.

Foursquare house with attic.

Hipped roof exceptions exist but most foursquares have a hipped or steep pyramidal roof. They were commonly built with the top few feet of the basement walls extending up out of the ground creating a tall boxy home on the lot. This part of the house is currently used for storage but it s conditioned and comfortable and we can t wait for it to one day be an amazing bedroom. Built in 1915 the symmetrical house had the classic configuration of four rooms downstairs and four up plus a dormered attic under a hipped roof and an ample front porch.

From my amateur perspective it makes sense to raise the roof a bit and renovate the attic into usable space. Boxy shape it s nearly a cube practicality usually dictated a slightly greater depth than width with two full storeys and an attic that was often made livable by large dormers. Low pitched hipped roof the roof slopes in on all four sides of the house resembling a pyramid and has a low slope i e. With the american foursquare s style of a large but low attic i thought that i would find a more examples of third floor or dormer type renovations.

This foursquare house plan transformed that second floor closet from model 102 and turned it into an indoor bathroom. But it was in pretty shabby shape. The chelsea floor plan has a large front hall room quaintly described as a music room or reception hall the stairs in this room jut out on the second floor allowing space for a side entry door under an oriel window. The foursquare is typically a two and a half story house on a full basement with a monitor dormer a dormer with a roof line that mirrors the primary roof in the attic.

A steep sloped hipped roof creates the large attic. There was green shag carpet everywhere says terry. Finished walk up attic. The layout of tis space is very simple but spacious.

However some were built with partial porches and some have porches that wrap around to the side. Most foursquares have pyramidal hip roofs which come to a peak in the center. The exterior of a foursquare is cube shaped with two full floors plus an attic i e. Generally foursquare houses have a front porch spanning the full width of the front of the house.

Best of all the high pitched roof of the house offers some great ceiling height in this room. Oct 6 2015 5 posts published by newjersey oldhouse during december 2013.