English country houses. Forty-five views and plans of recently erected mansions, private residences, parsonage-houses, farm-houses, lodges, and cottages: with a practical treatise on house-building (1870)
Wilkinson, William, 1819-1901 · London and Oxford, J. Parker · leaf 21
ing liquid mortar poured in atintervals to fill up all unoccupied parts. When the walls are of stone, the strength of the work depends very much onthe manner in which it is bonded together, and stones having large flat beds areto be preferred; and at frequent intervals, stones, the whole thickness… … The ordinary terms used to distinguish the various kinds of stone-walling are rubble work, random work, ranged work, and ashlar work. In rubble work the stones are used pretty much as they are taken from thequarry, and no labour is expended in shaping them : rubble work may be shewn asfollows :— 12…
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