I’m looking for a term, if it exists, for ashlar laid out in an irregular pattern and not in straight courses. There’s a house near mine built of dressed rectangular granite blocks of different sizes and shapes.
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Pick one.
http://www.masonryinstitute.com/guide/part3/systems_b1_pg4.html
Thanks to both of you. Random-coursed ashlar or ashlar-slate seems to be closest.
Edited 2/18/2007 12:52 pm ET by Disputantum
Here's a picture of the house: http://mysite.verizon.net/vzeu2jvc/id9.html
is that a couple blocks before the main gate to West Point ?
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Sort of. It's off on a side street but only three or four blocks away from the gate called South Gate or Thayer Gate where the stone guard shack is.
Edited 2/19/2007 1:53 pm ET by Disputantum
Here's another:
http://www.artcrete.com/assets/pdf/stencliPatterns.pdf