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There are many different ways to arrange
bricks in a wall. The different arrangement are called "bonds". A
brick arranged along a wall is called a "stretcher"; one laid across
a wall is a "header".
The
gable front of a shop in Epsom High Street, showing the decorative use of different kinds
of tiling. Compare this to most modern shops.
One
of many designs of hanging tiles producing a hexagonal pattern.
Flemish
bond brickwork. Alternating headers (Short side showing) and Stretchers (long side
showing) in each course of bricks.
A
modern wall with only stretchers. This arrangement of bricks is know
as stretcher bond.
An
old boundary wall in Epsom, Surrey. Possibly intended to be English bond - courses of stretchers
alternating with courses of headers, but not quite making it!
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Buildings often
give us clues about the way they have been altered. This building at the Coalport Museum
in Shropshire shows that there was once an extension that has now been knocked down. You
can see the outline of the roof and the filled in doorway.
At various times in history it has been
fashionable to include patterns in the brickwork of domestic and
civic buildings. These houses in Reading, with their patterned
brickwork, were built during Victorian times.
