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Figure 107
Red colour washed
gauged camber
arch built, of buff
coloured voussoirs,
on the late eighteenth
century 'Red House',
Fenny Stratford,
(Buckinghamshire).
The surrounding
brickwork has sadly
been the recent victim
of poorly applied and
wholly inappropriate
cement:sand
re-pointing.
new where decayed and rendered and set with Roman cement and coloured and
drawn in imitation of Red gaged work...at 2s.0.
………………………..£22.6.0.
There are also instances during this period of flat gauged arches over win-
dow heads built of brick tiles, also called mathematical tiles, introduced and
employed onto the façades of some properties to create the illusion of solid
walling with face brickwork. O'Shea (1981, 14), commenting on their use for
straight arches of gauged work in Lewes (Sussex), records:
These are made in the classical Georgian manner with red rubbers worked to taper-
ing voussoirs, but sawn down the 4½
thickness to give two matching bricks and
ends of the bricks dry rubbed with brick dust to give a butt joint. The staggered
horizontal dummy joints are formed by cutting a groove and filling with mortar.
