Victorian Round Roofs

Diagonal window muntins dominant vertical dividers in the windows.

Victorian round roofs.

While asphalt roofs weren t used during the victorian period they can be made to resemble victorian style roofing such as wood shakes or slate. Queen anne homes are the quintessential victorian home. Asphalt shingles can also come in varying shapes and sizes for added victorian appeal and durability. Also different architectural styles will use the same type of roof.

Complex roof lines became the rage as architects worked to create designs that would pull the eye to the top of the house. New siding materials and ornate trim pieces gave way to fancier home designs. Builders gave houses arches pointed windows with diamond shaped panes and other elements borrowed from the middle ages. A round roof like a barrel tunnel vault.

For example asphalt shingles can come in scallop diamond and zig zag shapes. Victorian style house with turret in fredericton new brunswick canada with pointed dome roof. Pendleton house 1855 staten island new york. They may not necessarily know what it s called for instance they may say that really cool looking round tower thingy but a turret or tower is what likely comes to mind.

Square turret with round lookout ship windows the center located square turret on this house has tiny round look out windows built into the steeply sloped roof with crows nest built on top. Barrel barrel arched cradle wagon. Circular bell roof bell shaped ogee philibert de l orme roof. For this reason older buildings were often remodeled with mansard roofs.

They are asymmetrical two or three or more stories tall have steeply pitched roofs and large wrap around porches. Bow roof rainbow gothic gothic arch and ship s bottom roof. An arched roof in the form of a catenary curve. Roof shapes became steeper in victorian homes.

Today mansard style roofs are occasionally used in one and two story apartment buildings restaurants and neo eclectic houses. Carved brackets at the eaves were common. Historically also called a compass roof. In the united states second empire or mansard was a victorian style popular from the 1860s through the 1880s.

A victorian style turret or tower is probably the most prominent homebuilding feature that most people picture in their minds when they think victorian architecture.