walls get their general dressing, ready to receive their coating.
Mr. Flitcroft describes Rose Hill Villa as coated with stone, lime-coloured and drawn. The columns of the villa are of brick. He states that there are several other buildings of this kind at Stockbridge, Winchester, and other places in the neighbourhood. He describes a better method of constructing such walls by the use of a moveable trough or box about 12 feet in length by 18 inches in depth. This trough rests on bearers put across the wall, with a mortice at each end wide enough apart to receive the sides, and the thickness of the wall; in these are inserted uprights to prevent the sides giving way, with others to go across the top. This mode of construction is however very ancient, and when done on a large scale the primitive method is still pursued.
This method is shown in the preceding engraving, which gives an elevation and section of a wall in process of construction, with the posts, b b, the moveable planking, c c, and cross pieces, d. It will be seen that three courses of bricks are put about every five feet in height. The figures here given are copied from a very old French work on Architecture and Building; they also show the manner in which roof construction was attempted with slabs of the same material, as shown in figs. 1 and 2: the building is supposed to be square, as shown by the dotted lines a, b, c, d.
| Fig. 1. | Fig. 2. |
| Elevation | Section. |
The plan, elevation, and section given below represent a small tomb wholly formed of concrete slabs, the door alone being excepted. This little building forms really a solid concrete monolithic edifice.
| The entrance door | Plan. |