French hood
You will find several houses with a French hood in the Netherlands. Other names for this roof construction are also called Mansardekap or Mansartkap. The typical broken hood, elaborated by French architect François Mansart, creates more spacious upstairs, and that is a good thing for these houses, often with a ground floor and only one floor on top.
We have lived in such a house for many years, and it was a pleasant surprise to find such a home as a model in the Holland Scale (non-sponsored) range. It creates a bond, I'll say. By the way, apart from that hood, the cottage does not look so much like our own palace.
I painted the walls of our house myself, and it seemed like a nice idea to treat the model house with the same paint, see header photo!
(c) 2022 Hans van Gemert
Nice that your train landscape is growing fully !
It's also great that it's between the other houses along the railway track of your model train.