Victorian Revival Roof Stype

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.

Victorian revival roof stype. They also typically boast a steep shingled roof. Folk victorians are designed to be just a little bit smaller and more affordable than the typical victorian style house. Mansard roofs were considered especially practical because they allowed usable living quarters to be placed in the attic. In other english speaking parts of the world queen.

The queen anne style in british architecture refers to either the english baroque architectural style that developed around the time of queen anne who reigned from 1702 to 1714 or a revived form that became popular during the last quarter of the 19th century and the early decades of the 20th century which is known as queen anne revival. Another revival of the mansard roof occurred in the 1850s when paris was rebuilt by napoleon iii. You may see dormer. The stick style is often considered to be a transitional style linking the preceding gothic revival with the subsequent queen anne.

When you look at a house built during the victorian era you might see pediments which are characteristic of greek revival or balustrades echoing a beaux arts style. A lovely but less common style in america during the victorian period was gothic revival 1840 1875. Victorian architects and builders applied decoration liberally combining features borrowed from many different eras with flourishes from their own imaginations.