05. Gothic Revival

• Steeply pitched roofs with cross gables.
• Asymmetrical design.
• Gothic arches.
• Steep pointed gables with gingerbread, decorative scroll-sawn-bargeboard which is the ornamental woodwork located on the gables of a house, generally suspended from the edge of the projecting roof.
• They also have carved buttresses (which are stone or brick structures, built against the wall to support the pressure of an arch.)
• They have tall towers and turrets (a turret is a small tower that is part of a building.)
• Gothic Revival homes have spacious verandas and first story porches.
• They have stained glass and leaded glass windows either double hung or pointed arch style with ornate window shutters
• Often they have Oriel bay windows which project from the main wall of the building, but do not reach the ground. They are usually supported from below by a bracket.