page_title: Säteri roof
hierarchical_section_title: Säteri roof
caption_attribution_description: This is a photo of a protected building in Sweden, number 21300000013659 in the RAÄ buildings database.
context_page_description: A säteritak is a type of roof, similar to a clerestory, that enjoyed great popularity in Sweden from the mid-seventeenth century. Originally used for higher-status buildings such as manors, it consists of a hip roof, where the uppermost part has been cut off from the bottom part by an additional strip of wall and often an additional line of roof windows. It would later spread to rural buildings of more modest social status. The model for this type of roof was the more elaborate one of Riddarhuset, a palatial building in Stockholm housing the parliamentary meetings of the nobility, which was given its final form by Simon de la Vallée.
  Often, the upper part with its additional windows, was purely decorative, but it could contain an additional floor, as was the case with the modest Manor of Vahlsta in Västmanland.
context_section_description: A säteritak ("manorial roof") is a type of roof, similar to a clerestory, that enjoyed great popularity in Sweden from the mid-seventeenth century. Originally used for higher-status buildings such as manors (hence the name), it consists of a hip roof, where the uppermost part has been cut off from the bottom part by an additional strip of wall and often an additional line of roof windows. It would later spread to rural buildings of more modest social status. The model for this type of roof was the more elaborate one of Riddarhuset, a palatial building in Stockholm housing the parliamentary meetings of the nobility, which was given its final form by Simon de la Vallée.
  Often, the upper part with its additional windows, was purely decorative, but it could contain an additional floor, as was the case with the modest Manor of Vahlsta in Västmanland (from c. 1700).
caption: Stola Manor (1719), Strö parish, Västergötland
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