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OE tr. Felix St. Guthlac (Vesp.) (1909) xi. 145 He þa Wilfrið mid gyrde of þam huses hrofe þa glofe geræhte.]

c1450 Alphabet of Tales (1905) II. 523 (MED) Þai lifte his bodie vp into þe howse-rufe, & lete it fall oftsithis.

?a1563 W. Baldwin Beware Cat (1584) iii. sig. Giv At a little hole in the house roof, [she] peeped in and saw me.

1601 P. Holland tr. Pliny Hist. World II. xix. v. 15 They [sc. cucumbers] would be..climbing up to the house roofe, if they can meet with any rough places to take hold by.

1786 J. Norman Town & Country Builder's Assistant x. 14/1 To framing brick house roofs with a flat on the top 8s per square.

1860 S. Smiles Self-help (new ed.) viii. 209 Sitting astride of a house-roof.

1997 R. Tremain Way I found Her (1998) iii. 333 To get on to the barn roof from the lower point of the house roof involved a drop of approximately three metres.