Old Brickwork

[Bernard Lamb]

As a change from tin how about a thread on bricks.

Newish brickwork is fairly uniform.

Old buildings tend to have had various alterations over the years.

In around a couple of hundred years plus it can finish up looking like this.

The former Butchers Arms in Oving, Buckinghamshire.

Bernard

 

[The Stationmaster]

Somebody has just built a house near here with that sort of regular-ish pattern of blues among reds - the bricks must have cost a fortune.

[Darwinian]

Nice example of different styles. I'm no expert but it looks like three build elements. Ground and first floor of main building are in English bond with Blue headers and red stretchers, The top floor is still the same bond but there are very few blue headers. There is distinct slumping of the brickwork (that would be interesting to model) over the large windows and the straight arch suggests an inadequate lintel to support the additional weight. Cowboy builders even them.

The right hand extension is more modern and appears to have a largely stretcher based brickwork bond, although it is a bit hidden by the plants.

Perhaps someone can estimate periods for these phases.

 

Darwinian

[Bernard Lamb]

Nice example of different styles. I'm no expert but it looks like three build elements. Ground and first floor of main building are in English bond with Blue headers and red stretchers, The top floor is still the same bond but there are very few blue headers. There is distinct slumping of the brickwork (that would be interesting to model) over the large windows and the straight arch suggests an inadequate lintel to support the additional weight.

Perhaps someone can estimate periods for these phases.

 

Darwinian

 

 

For a non expert you are doing rather well. Slumping is a good word to use. I like that.

See here for some details.

http://www.britishlistedbuildings.co.uk/en-42183-the-old-butchers-arms-oving

Bernard

[buffalo]

...Ground and first floor of main building are in English bond with Blue headers and red stretchers...

As Bernard said, you did quite well, except that it is Flemish bond, alternative headers and stretchers. This decorative style using blue or partly glazed headers was quite popular, particularly in the South East, in the 18th century. It is often described as chequer pattern as in the EH listing description. The first two storeys are well built, and typical of the period, but the 19th century upper storey is a real dog's breakfast. Perhaps the intention was to continue in Flemish, but it is a rather messy mixture of English and Flemish (note the long runs of either headers or stretchers as in English bond in the lower courses between second and third storey windows).

 

Nick