Agriculture Reference
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Georgian builders often combined coloured bricks for a reticent polychro-
matic effect, especially around door and window jambs, pilasters, and some
quoins, the best of this brickwork being executed in rubbers, for arches,
aprons, cornices and pilasters, etc of contrasting colours to the facework.
An example of such finely gauged pilasters is at Bradbourne, Larkfield (Kent)
(1714). Describing the gauged work of The Convent at Longbridge, Farnham
(Surrey), Lloyd (1925, 220) says:
The walling is built with 2-2¼ins bricks, rubbed and edged, with ¼in joints.
The dressings are built with 2
1
/
8
ins bricks and invisible joints. This house is a fine
example of cut, rubbed, and gauged brickwork…
Also in wealthy Farnham, where there was the money to finance such costly brick-
work, Lloyd (1925, 222) describes the fine red brick outside of Wilmer House as:
Perhaps the most remarkable elevation in cut and moulded brickwork extant.
The whole front is gauged. The bolection mouldings of window architraves are
exceptional. The cornice is also excellent.
Chicheley Hall at Chicheley (Buckinghamshire) (1719-24), designed by Francis
Smith of Warwick, has the main south and east facades of finely coursed ash-
lared gauged work and enrichments; and niches on some of the associated build-
ings. All local bricks, including the orange/red-textured rubbers that match the
standard face bricks, were used for this most gracious of buildings (Fig. 93).
Figure 93
Close-up of some of
the ashlared gauged
work to a pilaster
and the surrounding
standard facework
at Chicheley Hall
(Buckinghamshire),
1718, which reveals they
are of the same bricks.
