Steeply pitched and complex queen anne roofs provided visual interest and variety with gables dormers and turrets or towers often all in one roof.
Queen ann roof.
The roof so often equals style.
Fish scale scalloped shingles in the gable rounded tower or turret and a less common ogee shaped s shaped roof.
A gable is a roof section with two sloping sides that meet at a ridge line.
Courtesy of cleary son inc all of this frivolity arrived thanks to advances in the industrial age.
Steeply pitched and complex queen anne roofs provided visual interest and variety with gables dormers and turrets or towers often all in one roof.
Consistent treatment of shingles on the gables and a different one on the midsection of the bay wrapping around the corner help dress up the exterior of this queen anne despite a unified paint scheme.
The steep gables of gothic revival a pyramid roof broken by dormers on an american foursquare and as here the extravagant complex asymmetry topping a victorian queen anne house.