This style of roofing became popular in the united states during the 18 th century in the early georgian period.
Hip roof support walls.
These walls directly support roof trusses or rafters.
A hip roof or a hipped roof is a style of roofing that slopes downwards from all sides to the walls and hence has no vertical sides.
Does this seem adequate to hold this roof up without having a load bearing support wall in the interior.
Just to be on the side of caution i would install an 8ft 4x4 directly centered under the splice with lag bolts and remove the vertical.
Side walls are primary load bearing walls in simple gable end framing but hip roofs and complex roof lines depend on more than just the side.
Any wall on all floors directly above or parallel to a basement beam.
A hip roof is a roof in which the roof slopes upward from all four exterior walls to meet at a central ridge.
The exception would be in the case of a hip roof were ceiling joists often change direction at each end of the house and a wall is run crossways to support the inside ends of the joist the ceiling joists appear to change direction directly above one of the walls.
The hip roof is the most commonly used roof style in north america after the gabled roof.
I am putting up a 20 x40 one level building that will have a conventional hip roof w 6 12 pitch there will be ceiling joists 2x8x12 secured in the center and hung from the ridge beam by 2x4 s.
The wall you are wanting to remove is not a bearing wall by looking at the framing in the attic and the roof lines of the house.
Structural walls on two story homes with gable roofs are commonly the center wall running parallel with the length of the house and the front and rear walls on the exterior.
There are no gable ends on a building with a hip roof.
Some claim true rectangular or square hip roof structures are self supporting.
To what extent do the opposing forces of a symmetrical hip roof system relieve the point load resulting from a roof brace.
If hips are self supporting why are braces required.
In hip roof designs all four exterior walls support the ends of roof rafters so all exterior walls bear a weight load from the roof above them.
However a house with a hip roof structure suggests that all the exterior walls are bearing walls.