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Rusticated
Masonry cut in large blocks separated by deep joints, used to give a bold, exaggerated look to the lower part of an exterior wall, or to frame a door or window ...

 


rusticated stone
Stonework, sometimes roughly finished, distinguished by having the joints deeply sunk.
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Rusticated / Rustication
In architecture, a masonry construction using large stone blocks, separated from each other by deep joints, which have rough surfaces and bevelled edges in order to give an eroded or rustic appearance to the construction.

RUSTICATEDheavily textured or rough-surfaced stone-work
RETURN EAVESa moulding, which extends from eaves and continues around the corner of the house to simulate a partial pediment
ROUNDELa circular component usually applied to windows or panels ...

rusticated block - concrete block formed to replicate rough stone
sash - the moveable framework holding the glass in a window or door
sill - the horizontal water-shedding element at the bottom of a window or door frame ...

Rusticated - Stonework with beveled or angled edges
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Semi-dome - a half-dome, in an apse or elsewhere.

Huge rusticated blocks form the basis for the structure. Contrast this with the ashlar finish of the Renaissance Revival.
Notice that the arch on the top right of this photo uses dichromatic stonework.

rustication, rusticated Stonework composed of large blocks of masonry separated by wide, recessed joints; often imitated in other materials for decorative purposes.

Palladian villas are usually built with three floors: a rusticated basement or ground floor, containing the service and minor rooms.

Walls: Smooth stone, rusticated stone (joints exaggerated
Hipped roof, low pitch or flat, symmetrical roof
Slight eave overhang, boxed with modillions, dentils, or other classical moldings or Slight to wide eave overhang with brackets ...

vermiculated rustication: rusticated masonry that is carved with tiny writhing lines, like worms.
vernacular: the characteristic style of building for an area, usually unaffected by other architectural styles.

rusticate - send to the country; "He was rusticated for his bad behavior"
banish, ban - ban from a place of residence, as for punishment
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opening in a wall or at the apex of a dome ONION DOME: a pointed, bulbous dome common in Russia, Eastern European, and Islamic architecture PALAZZO: a fortress-like, three-storied home during the Italian Renaissance, usually featuring a rusticated ...

Arched, recessed openings
Full entablatures between floors
Columns
Ground floor made of rusticated stone with beveled edges and deeply-recessed joints ...

primarily, masonry in which only the margins of the stones are worked; also used for any masonry where the joints are emphasised by mouldings, grooves, etc.; rusticated columns are those in which the shafts are interrupted by square blocks of stone ...

banded, the bands being concentric with the column as in France, and occasionally richly carved as in Philibert De L'Orme's work at the Tuileries. In England Inigo Jones introduced similar features, but with square blocks sometimes rusticated, ...

If quoins project they are described as raised, and if provided with chamfered angles, rusticated. Quoins are said to be squint when they are not at right angles.

that are largely based on the Romanesque style of southeast France; typical elements include asymmetrical massing, round towers with conical roofs, massive walls with deep arched openings, hipped roofs with eyebrow dormers, pitch face rusticated ...

The faces may be flat, but can be diamond-faced, like shallow pyramids, vermiculated, with a stylized texture like worm-casts, and glacial, like icicles or stalactites (also called frost-work). Rusticated columns may have their ...

See also: Architecture, House, Classical, Pediment, Masonry