Crow-stepped gable
（重定向自Corbie steps）
![Crow steps on a Scottish Baronial building](/Images/godic/202501/06/Crow_steps_15816.jpg")
![A typical Dutch house in Delft, with a crow-stepped gable.](/Images/godic/202501/06/Delft_trapgevel5816.jpg")
![The crow-stepped gables of Glimmingehus, Scania, Scandinavia's best-preserved medieval manor, built in 1499 by a Danish knight.](/Images/godic/202501/06/Glimmingehus_cropped5816.jpg")
![Nordertor, ca. 1595, Flensburg](/Images/godic/202501/06/Nordertor,_Flensburg_2013,_Bild_085816.JPG")
A crow-stepped gable, stepped gable, or corbie step is a stairstep type of design at the top of the triangular gable-end of a building. The top of the parapet wall projects above the roofline and the top of the brick or stone wall is stacked in a step pattern above the roof as a decoration and as a convenient way to finish the brick courses.