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Pargeting - Exterior plastering of a timber-framed building, usually modelled in design, e.g. vine pattern, foliage, figures.

 


parget
Roughest, plaster. (Parging is a colloquial term referring to the application of cement plaster.)
parquet ...

PARGETING Plasterwork, incised or modelled with ornamental patterns, on a building's exterior walls.

pargetting: plastering on a wall or ceiling that incorporates scratched or shallow moulded patterns.
pastas: south-facing loggia in a Greek house.
pavillion: a small villa or pleasure pavilion.

PARGETING (lit. plastering): Exterior plaster decoration, either moulded in relief or incised.
PEDESTAL An architectural support or base, as for a column or statue.
PEDIMENT A low-pitched gable over porticos, doors, windows, etc.

Pargeting / Comb work
- originally a course plaster, now taken to refer to decorative plaster design either in relief or incised, applied to the exterior of buildings, usually to timber frames.

parging (pargeting) - to coat with plaster, particularly foundation walls and rough masonry (see stucco)
pediment - a triangular section, or gable end, often used above doors and windows or at porch entrances ...

Parge (pargetting, parging) - Decorative external plastering in repetitive patterns. Render for the inside of a chimney flue.
Party-wall - A wall common to two buildings of a terraced row.

Stucco might be molded or studded with stones or broken glass to emulate the pargeting found on old English dwellings.

PARGETING: ornamental plasterwork cladding. PEDIMENT: a low-pitched, ornamental gable, encountered in eighteenth century work in particular and used above a doorway or window. PENDANT: a elongated boss.

See also: House, Plaster, Ornament, Classical, Member

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