cut stone
Large stones cut individually, used for a foundation or wall of a house.
cyrto-style ...
Cut stone architecture is rare in Iran which has no tradition of ashlar masonry to compare with that of the eastern Mediterranean.
Cut stone is used on the veneer of this three bay house in Dundas. The hip roof is ornamented with dentil blocks along the sill. There are also concrete sills on the windows.
Bossage - uncut stone that is laid in place in a building, projecting outward from the building, to later be carved into decorative moldings, capitals, arms, etc.
Constructed of cut stone, the Louvre is a masterpiece of the French Renaissance. Architect Pierre Lescot was one of the first to apply pure classical ideas in France, and his design for a new wing at the Louvre defined its future development.
Quoins - Units of cut stone or brick used to accentuate the vertical corners of buildings
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Reeding - Opposite of fluting; protruding half-round molding ...
This began to change in the later 1930s, particularly in work of Breuer, Gropius, and the Finnish architect Alvar Aalto, who began experimenting with rough-cut stone and wooden siding. This trend continued and increased during the war and after.
Since wooden buildings lack the gravitas the style required, Beaux-Arts structures were invariably constructed of masonry, usually a light-colored, smooth-surfaced, ashlar-cut stone... But the term "stone" needs o be qualified.
Bool and Clay
- (Scottish) form of vernacular wall construction using locally available and uncut stone such as field or river gathered boulders and clay. Sometimes referred to, rather strangely, as ham and egg work.
A hard, brittle rock characterized by good cleavage along parallel planes; used as cut stone in thin sheets for flooring, roofing and panels.
Soffit ...
Cast stone - a refined architectural concrete building unit manufactured to simulate natural cut stone, used in unit masonry applications.
A Semicircular opening in a wall, or a freestanding structure dependent for its structural stability on the horizontal load threatening to push it apart. Usually made from cut stone blocks forming interlocking wedges..
Wood shingles in gable peak
5. Brackets
6. Gable detailing on porch
7. Grouped columns set on brick piers
8. Brick arch
9. 1 over 1 double hung sash windows
10. Stone belt course
11. Stone water table
12. Cut stone foundation ...
RUBBLE: uncut stone. SACRISTY: a room attached to a church, in which the Communion vessels are kept. SADDLEBACK ROOF: a tower roof formed of an ordinary roof gable.
 See also: Architecture, House, Brick, Classical, Arches
  
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