The architecture of country houses : including designs for cottages, farm houses, and villas, with remarks on interiors, furniture, and the best modes of warming and ventilating (1851)
Downing, A. J. (Andrew Jackson), 1815-1852, Anderson, Alexander, 1775-1870 · New York : D. Appleton & Company, 200 Broadway ; Philadelphia : Geo S. Appleton, 164 Chestnut-Street · leaf 77
are stretchers laid flat, and theinside and outside com-ses are tied together by the bricksmarked a. B represents the second coui*se of this wall. The builderwill notice here an important point, viz. that the position of thetie-brick, «, is changed in this com*se to 5, thus breaking joints,and… … [Fig. 2. Hollow Hi inch wall.] Ill B, tlie course of bricks in that part of the wall directlyl)efore ns, is laid across the last course, forming a whole courseof headers ; and a wall built in this way {Engluh Bond)^ is thebest and strongest, when the outside is to be stuccoed orcemented. When it is…
Architecture, Domestic
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