The Pattern of English Building |
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Abbey aesthetic architecture areas ashlar blocks brickwork builders building material building stone built Carboniferous Castle Cathedral cement chalk church clay Collyweston colour construction Cornwall Cotswold cottages courses cruck Derbyshire Devon Dorset dressings durable early East Anglia effect eighteenth century employed England especially Essex example external facing flint freestone gable gatehouse Georgian glass glazing granite greensand grey gritstone half-timbered Hall Ham Hill Herefordshire important iron Kent known Leicestershire less lime limestone Lincolnshire London look Manor marble masonry miles Millstone Grit mortar moulded nineteenth century Norfolk Northamptonshire oolite ornamental pantiles pargeting pattern pink places plaster Portland Portland stone Purbeck quarries red brick reed rocks roof roughcast sand sandstone sarsens seen seventeenth century Shropshire Somerset sometimes stonework stucco Suffolk surface Surrey Sussex texture thatch tiles timber timber-framed to-day tower towns Tudor usually Victorian village walls weather Wiltshire wood Yorkshire