1.   A white cottage with a grey slate roof and a black chimney and a bright butter-yellow front door.

2.   It had a grey slate roof and one small chimney, and there were two little windows at the front.

3.   Ranks of houses stretched away into the distance like waves breaking on a rocky shore, their slate roofs glistening.

4.   ...a small stone cottage with a red slate roof.

5.   ... a stone-built cottage, with a traditional slate roof.

6.   The house has a slate roof.

7.   It was coloured in cement and grey, its slate roof dull with moss, great jagged lengths of cornice hanging down like broken fingers from its brow.

8.   Also walking on a slate roof can crack or damage the existing, good tiles.

9.   And for preservationists and aesthetic purists, the only appropriate replacement for an old slate roof is a new one.

10.   And that something is to install snow hooks, which look like little railings and are common on slate roofs.