Turtles

Sometimes when houses of wood are stuccoed, features above the roofline escape cement internment.

Are these mostly small dormers overlooked (since they are seldom accosted by changes of fenestration), or might their exclusion be a cost savings move?  Is 'The Dormer' beneath notice or viewed benignly?  

Like the head of a turtle emerging from its cartilaginous shell, the tactile difference is conspicuous, even when masked by common color, like this example wherein the beta gable has been left unmolested, er, shingled.

Whilst I tend to get a bit peppery when confronted by detail diminishing alterations, perhaps I should be grateful for these vestiges, restoration road maps of a sort, Sirens for the aesthete.