Visitors to Bermuda are likely to notice one key feature about its architecture: across the islands, the pastel-painted houses all share a distinctive white, stepped roof style. A recent article on BBC News Magazine explores the original reason for, and subsequent history of, this unique roof design, showing how vernacular architectural elements often fit into a larger narrative of culture and geography.

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Visitors to Bermuda are likely to notice one key feature about its architecture: across the islands, the pastel-painted houses all share a distinctive white, stepped roof style. A recent article on BBC News Magazine explores the original reason for, and subsequent history of, this unique roof design, showing how vernacular architectural elements often fit into a larger narrative of culture and geography.
The Chaplin Estate (formerly known as Spithead), an 18th-century home that once belonged to merchant and privateer Hezekiah Frith. Image © <a href='https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:%22Spithead%22_-_18th_Century_Bermudian_home_of_Hezekiah_Frith_and_20th_Century_home_of_Eugene_O%27Neill.jpg'>Wikimedia user Aodhdubh</a> licensed under <a href='https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-...