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  2. Flemish bond - Wikipedia

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    Flemish bond brickwork on the Ludwell–Paradise House. Flemish bond is a pattern of brickwork that is a common feature in Georgian architecture. The pattern features bricks laid lengthwise (stretchers) alternating with bricks laid with their shorter ends exposed (headers) within the same courses. This decorative pattern can be accented by ...

  3. Brickwork - Wikipedia

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    Brickwork in Flemish Bond. Flemish bond has one stretcher between headers, with the headers centred over the stretchers in the courses below. [30] Where a course begins with a quoin stretcher, the course will ordinarily terminate with a quoin stretcher at the other end. The next course up will begin with a quoin header.

  4. County courthouse architecture in colonial America - Wikipedia

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    Flemish Bond Brickwork. The most common form of brickwork on colonial American public buildings during the mid to late eighteenth century was Flemish bond, in which each layer of bricks consisted of two stretchers laid parallel to each other and the wall, alternated with one header, laid perpendicular to the wall and the other bricks. This ...

  5. James Baker House (Burkesville, Kentucky) - Wikipedia

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    The Flemish bond exterior and the elaborate detail of the Federal style interior were found in Kentucky's highly designed homes in 1820. This house may have been an effort by wealthy rural residents to convey their social status through fashionable architectural style, while at the same time retaining a traditional hall and parlor plan that was ...

  6. Brick - Wikipedia

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    A wall constructed in glazed-headed Flemish bond with bricks of various shades and lengths. An old brick wall in English bond laid with alternating courses of headers and stretchers. A brick is a type of construction material used to build walls, pavements and other elements in masonry construction.

  7. List of construction methods - Wikipedia

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    English cross bond has courses of stretchers and headers, but with the alternating stretcher courses offset by half a brick. Flemish bond consists of alternating stretchers and headers in each course. Header bond has courses of headers offset by half a brick. Stack bond consists of bricks laid directly on top of one another with joints aligned.

  8. William and Margaret Mecum House - Wikipedia

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    The two-story house uses Flemish bond brickwork and features Georgian architecture. The farm was reduced in size in the early 1970s when the United States Fish and Wildlife Service bought 250 acres (100 ha) for the Supawna Meadows National Wildlife Refuge. [3] Gable brickwork with initials and date

  9. Yabberup, Western Australia - Wikipedia

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    Yabberup and the Shire of Donnybrook–Balingup are located on the traditional land of the Wardandi people of the Noongar nation. [5] [6] [7] The locality is home to the heritage listed Yabberup Hall, which dates back to 1894. The Flemish bond brickwork building was officially opened in August 1896, then as the Preston Agricultural Hall. The ...