South Harting: rat-trap bond
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South Harting: rat-trap bond
Image: © Stefan Czapski Taken: 11 Aug 2015
The three-bay house with the fancy door-case was built using the notorious 'rat-trap bond' - lay bricks on their edges, and you don't need so many of them. Despite skimping on materials, the brick-layer has attempted something like classic Flemish bond - a neat pattern, with red stretchers and blue headers alternating throughout. Edging into the left-hand margin of the picture is a cottage built largely of 'clunch' - substantial blocks of chalk. The building is either recent or much renewed - either way, it's good to see that traditional local materials were used. There is more clunch to be seen in a free-standing wall, just beyond the open parking bay. And a photo taken from the opposite direction reveals yet more . . . http://www.geograph.org.uk/photo/4616833
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Image Location
Latitude
50.969999
Longitude
-0.880403