Fish scale scalloped shingles in the gable rounded tower or turret and a less common ogee shaped s shaped roof.
Queen ann roof.
Roofs of the 17th and 18th centuries typically were covered by cedar or pine shingles.
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.
The roof so often equals style.
Steeply pitched and complex queen anne roofs provided visual interest and variety with gables dormers and turrets or towers often all in one roof.
A gable is a roof section with two sloping sides that meet at a ridge line.
Three prominent features of queen anne style.
Queen anne buildings have deeply pitched roofs with irregular shapes often with one or more front facing gables.