 The ends of the east gable consist of a corbelled turret on the outside corners with eight crow steps rising to the middle.The crow steps on the west wall are truncated by the presence of the tower and so have only 1½ steps.Other colonial structures with gables are few and include Bacon's Castle(1665) the second Bruton Parish Church, (1680s), and St. Peter's Church, New Kent County (1701) all of which are characterized by Flemish curved gables instead of crow step gables.