Fish scale scalloped shingles in the gable rounded tower or turret and a less common ogee shaped s shaped roof.
Queen ann roof.
Queen anne buildings have deeply pitched roofs with irregular shapes often with one or more front facing gables.
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.
Roofs of the 17th and 18th centuries typically were covered by cedar or pine shingles.
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.