Queen Anne vs Shingle Style
Shingle Style is the cross-discipline counterpart of Queen Anne — closely related to and partly emerging from the Queen Anne, trading its busy ornament for a unified shingle surface.
Queen Anne
The exuberant high-Victorian style of asymmetrical towers, wraparound porches, and richly textured surfaces — prizing picturesque variety over rule-bound order.
- Asymmetrical massing with corner turrets and projecting bays
- Steeply pitched, irregular rooflines with multiple front gables
- Expansive wraparound porches with turned posts and spindlework
- Contrasting wall textures: clapboard, shingles, half-timbering, masonry
- Tall, ornamented chimneys and decorative gable detailing
Shingle Style
A sophisticated New England resort style wrapping irregular, flowing building masses in an unbroken skin of wood shingles — prizing horizontal continuity over applied ornament.
- Continuous unbroken wood-shingle skin over all surfaces
- Asymmetrical, freely flowing massing
- Broad gambrel or gabled roofs with sweeping planes
- Deep wraparound and recessed porches
- Rounded towers, eyebrow dormers, and minimal applied ornament
At a glance
| Queen Anne | Shingle Style | |
|---|---|---|
| Era | 1870–1910 | 1874–1910 |
| Discipline | Architecture | Architecture |
| Region | United Kingdom, United States, Australia | New England, Atlantic seaboard resorts, United States |
| Family | Victorian | Victorian |
| Formal traits | turreted, porched, textured, gabled | shingle-skin, flowing, sweeping-roof, wraparound-porch |
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