Glossary

A stone finish in which the edges of each dressed block are cut back to a narrow flat margin while the centre is left rough, used at the key points of tunnel portals and stone walls.

The practice of raising a building and moving it whole to another position without taking it apart, recorded in date fields and descriptions as part of a building's history.

A wall finish in which flat tiles are fixed to the surface and the joints between them are raised in half-round ridges of lime plaster, most often on the lower part of a wall.

A wall finish that leaves the posts visible on the outside, standing opposite the method that buries them in plaster and marking the difference from storehouse construction.

Horizontal weatherboarding, each board overlapping the one below, finished either plain or with notched battens holding the boards, and used on Japanese and Western-style buildings alike.

A brickwork bond that shows only the long face of each brick, used where a curved surface such as a tunnel arch has to be built.

A double-skinned wall packed between the two faces to stop bullets, used around the outer walls of castle turrets.

The traditional Japanese roof frame, in which short posts stand on the beams to carry the purlins, recorded in contrast to the Western truss.