A säteritak ("manorial roof") is a type of

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, similar to a

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, that enjoyed great popularity in

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from the mid-seventeenth century. Originally used for higher-status buildings such as manors (hence the name), it consists of a

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, where the uppermost part has been cut off from the bottom part by an additional strip of wall and often an additional line of

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s. 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

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, a palatial building in Stockholm housing the parliamentary meetings of the nobility, which was given its final form by

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The upper part, with its additional windows, was often purely decorative, but it could contain an additional floor, as in the modest Manor of Vahlsta in Västmanland (from c. 1700).Johan Cederlund, "Arkitekturen 1690-1730", ''Signums svenska konsthistoria: Barockens konst'', Lund: Signum, 1997, p. 138

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