Fish scale scalloped shingles in the gable rounded tower or turret and a less common ogee shaped s shaped roof.
Queen ann roof.
Three prominent features of queen anne style.
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.
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.
Courtesy of cleary son inc all of this frivolity arrived thanks to advances in the industrial age.
The roof so often equals style.
Queen anne buildings have deeply pitched roofs with irregular shapes often with one or more front facing gables.