Queen Anne Hipped Roof

This side gabled house has a gambrel roof with three dormers.

Queen anne hipped roof.

Queen anne and shingle styles. Pyramidal photo by nancy andrews. Has a two story bay window. The area may have once hosted iron fretwork.

This style of dormer is common on houses in the prairie french eclectic and shingle styles. When a hipped dormer projects from a roof at a 45 degree angle it takes on a pyramidal shape. Queen anne victorians have a wide regal appearance accented with rounded turrets and a large wraparound front porch. Although the semi octagonal cutaway was the most popular type of bay window there were other types.

1 hipped roof with lower cross gable. Queen anne and shingle the styles that gained acceptance during the final decades of the. Queen anne style queenslander with pyramidal hipped roof gable over the entrance. Hipped dormers not surprisingly are often found on houses where the main roof is hipped as well.

Towers on left and right corners with tiled roof while the main roof is corrugated iron. This subtype of queen anne style classified as hipped roof with lower cross gables is among the most distinctive of queen anne characteristics and occurs in over half of all queen. Queen anne victorian. And 500 polk st.

Queenslander in california bungalow style very large gables under an a line bungalow roof and gablet false gable over the entrance. The asymmetrical floor plan and decorative elements continue on to the roof which often combines a gabled roof a hipped roof and the rounded roofs of the turrets plus potential dormers. A popular roof form was the gable on hip with a small gable appearing above the front hip as in 323 e. 3 front gabled roof and 4 town house.

Tented roofs a hallmark of medieval religious architecture were widely used to cover churches with steep conical roof structures. In the queen anne victorian style it took the form of a wooden turret with an octagonal base with steeply pitched slopes rising to a peak usually topped with a finial. At the top of the roof is a 14 ft 4 3 m by 14 ft 4 3 m area which is flat giving the roof its hipped quality. On the exterior the american queen anne house is generally covered with several materials.

Mansard also called french is a hipped roof variation with two slopes in which the lower slope is steeper than the upper slope figure g. Hipped roofs with wide overhanging eaves were ornamented with brackets often in pairs and in fancier homes capped by campaniles or square towers that rose above the roof line. A lovely but less common style in america during the victorian period was gothic revival 1840 1875. Stone brick slate terra cotta stucco half timber clapboard and shingle.

Has a curved bow window and a rectangular bay window set diagonally on a corner.