slate roof
Noun
Meaning
a roof covered with slate
Source: WordNetHypernyms
Examples
A slate roof may last 75 to 150 years, and even longer.
Atop the mansard slate roof are elaborate dormer windows and gilt lead roof dressings that were added by Hardouin-Mansart in 1679–1681.
In 1624, he acquired more and entrusted Philibert Le Roy with the construction of a small hunting lodge of red bricks and stone with a slate roof.
Medieval windows above that and then it hits the grey slate roof, its greyness relieved by those delicate little windows again picked out in gold leaf.
Often, the first part of a slate roof to fail is the fixing nails; they corrode, allowing the slates to slip.
However, slate roofs are often expensive to install – in the USA, for example, a slate roof may have the same cost as the rest of the house.