. A domestic cyclopædia of practical information ... k 2 or 3 inches as a plinth orbase course. This may be formed with a row- ofbricks set on edge with the outer angle splayedor chamfered off or it may be of stone similarlyworked and bedded with equal beds in longlengths. (See Fig. 5S) § 72. Walls are generally erected 20inches thick and they should be built of stonepicked of an even color laid either with ran-dom joints or coursed rough ashlar or withangular beds. This last is the most ,although if stones of another color and of suffi-cient size be used for door, window, jambs,and
. A domestic cyclopædia of practical information ... k 2 or 3 inches as a plinth orbase course. This may be formed with a row- ofbricks set on edge with the outer angle splayedor chamfered off or it may be of stone similarlyworked and bedded with equal beds in longlengths. (See Fig. 5S) § 72. Walls are generally erected 20inches thick and they should be built of stonepicked of an even color laid either with ran-dom joints or coursed rough ashlar or withangular beds. This last is the most ,although if stones of another color and of suffi-cient size be used for door, window, jambs,and at the corners in angular bedding, it has avery good effect, otherwise it will look weakand unstable. All stone used for face workshould be left free from tool or drill markswhich destroy the evenness of surface andcolor, and should not be too evenly trimmedon the surface, as the rougher the face, if freefrom tool marks, the greater the diversitv of tintsvalue from the shadow creating. If the stone19 be dark grey, red bricks may be used as a trim-. Fig. 55-Random Rubble Ashlar with brick quoins. ming in a variety of ways, at all the openingsand angles. Strings (/. t?. horizontal lines) of
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