The plain clay roof tile and lime mortar features (the English call this "tile creasing") used for gable eave stop corbels, arched openings etc., are common features of both 17th-18th century English vernacular rural architecture (in the counties of Sussex and Kent) and of Arts and Crafts revival practices at the end of the 19th century / early 20th century.
Details can be found in Volume 2 of W. B. McKay's "Building Construction," in Ron Brunskill's "Handbook of Vernacular Architecture," and most probably in Alec Clifton Taylor's "Pattern of English Building"
John Fidler (Englishman).
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John Fidler Intl. Assoc. AIA
President & Chief Technical Officer
John Fidler Preservation Technology
Marina Del Rey CA
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Original Message:
Sent: 08-15-2018 17:53
From: Kathryn Barth
Subject: Is anyone Familiar with brick details like these?
From Kathryn Howes Barth, Preservation Architect, Boulder Colorado. We've been trying to save this building from demolition. Owners withdrew application to demo, so we have a reprieve.
This building, identified as an English Tudor, was built in 1928. The detailing: corbeling, arches, lintels, in the massive chimney all feature what appear to be thin cut terra cotta roof tiles which are used in a decorative way.
Two brothers (their father was a Master Mason, and they followed in his footsteps) enlisted in WWI and served in France as part of the Engineering Corp. Are these details something they could have seen in northern France?
Does anyone have information about this type of detailing? Thank you.