Notice how a well designed roof doesn’t need gutters. Many historic buildings don’t need modern gutters. Gutters are the devil, a great way for a dimwit contractor to scam a couple hundred bucks from a dimwit owner.

tiled roof EXPLOSION!!!!!

Yeah 16th Street Heights!!!!

Crin, are referring to the garage (sorry to burst your bubble PoP, but that ain’t no carriage house – the house was built after the invention of those wacky horseless carriages, and you can see that the large blank wall to the left of the garage door has been filled in at some point, and used to have a second garage door), or the main house. I think I see downspouts on the main house, but can’t quite figure out where they are coming from.

@crin, wiser words never spoken. I am appalled how many row houses have had the front porch roofs repaired, presumably at great expense, to need gutters when they never did before!

The front porches were by and large designed with a rear-sloping pitch so the water runs towards the house, and the drainpipe is against the wall, like in this picture. So when the roof leaks or is otherwised repaired, some dumbass contractor who decided that he knows better than the original architect. So h reframes the whole thing to pitch forward… probably at great expense, and then requiring an ugly gutter, sometimes on all three sides. So it looks stupid, it now requires constant maintenance, is a more complex design, and will never be as effective at stopping waterfalls as the original, simple, beautiful design.

crin,
i bet you’ll dig this:
http://www.treehugger.com/files/2009/05/there-is-no-such-thing-as-caulk.php