Reformed Victorian  / Queen Anne Style

Hallmarks

Exuberant and decorated, this is the nook-and-cranny Victorian. 

• ASYMMETRY Towers, turrets, bays, porches, and roofline break the box. Roofs and massing are often complex.

• TEXTURE Surfaces are broken by a switch from stone or clapboard to shingles, often with fancy-cut butts. Belt courses, gable ornament, turnings, brackets, balustrades, and sawn-wood “gingerbread” keep it interesting. (Polychrome painting plays up surface texture even more.)

• WOOD TRIM Sawn, chamfered, carved, lathe-turned, and applied ornament is used on porches, gables, cornices, and storey breaks.