dressings: blocks of stone that have been cut with true plane faces or shaped into quoins or keystones.
DRESSINGS
The stone or brickwork worked to a finished face about an angle, opening, or other feature.
EAVES
That part of a sloping roof which is overhanging.
Dressings - Finely worked (moulded or carved) stones, mouldings or decoration, as prominent and decorative door and window surrounds and as quoins at the angles.
Dressings / accents
- all embracing term, used to describe stones worked to a smooth face and used to form features such as string courses or window margins which contrasts with the surrounding facing material.
Those of the Norman period generally have little projection, and are sometimes so flat as to be little more than outer dressings and hoodmoulds to the inner door.
rubbed-brick arches and dressings over and around openings
terra cotta embellishments
open-bed and broken pediments
monumental chimneys
shaped and Dutch gables
tile-hung gabled walls
white painted balustrades
balconies
bay-windows ...
The balconies on the tower have been removed and then replaced, and the arcaded veranda with fine treillage (latticework) has been replaced by a tasteful closed-in porch. The windows maintain their original massive dressings, pediments, ...
 See also: Dressing, Gable, Arches, Finish, Brick
  
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