Jerry,

Looking at first picture, I was considering the possibility that what we are seeing is a compliant wall/parapet/step-roof arrangement, and it is faced on the attic interior(s) with (possibly) non-compliant material installed in such a way that no hint is visible of the compliant structure within it.

Another possibility is that the observer got turned around (happens, that's why I wear a little luminous compass on my watchband) and that's actually a gable end.

Neither are likely, but we are not there, either.

If we were there, we would almost certainly be able to determine what was happening.

But at our present state of knowledge, we don't know for sure, we can only guess.

All we *do* know for certain is that this determination should be made, by the HI or someone else.

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In the third picture that looks a lot like gypsum board (with a section gouged out of it), but I've never seen it with a dark facing... there appears to be a light colored edge to the material... unless that's a piece of white coax or similar...

This is increasingly resembling a HI Rorschach test....

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