Tudor House Style

A Tudor-style home commonly features a steeply pitched roof, prominent cross gables, decorative half-timbering, and tall, narrow windows with small windowpanes. Dark half-timbering, trim, and brick are often accentuated by the lighter colors of cream, light brown, or white stucco or stone walls.

This style’s name suggests a close connection to the 16th-century architecture of England’s Tudor dynasty. But the Tudor houses we see today are modern-day reinventions loosely based on a variety of Late Medieval English prototypes.