English cross bond

Very neat and very pretty, more pleasing even than the popular English Cross bond.

This bond is exactly like English Cross bond except in the generating of the lap at the quoins.

Extending to the east and west are wings of five bays each whose brick is laid in an English cross bond with alternating courses of headers and stretchers.

Large areas of English Cross bond can appear to have a twill like characteristic, a effect caused by the unbroken series of perpends moving diagonally down the bond.

In fact, this wall is built in a variation of English bond called English cross bond where the successive layers of stretchers are displaced horizontally from each other by half a brick length.

On closer inspection I could see that the house had been built of bricks put together in English cross bond with weathered mortar joints, trimmed at the cornices, about the windows and door, and below the eaves, with great rectangular slabs of brownstone.

Because the building sits on a sloping lot, the rear section is actually three full stories; its ground floor section is made of concrete, while the rest of the building is predominantly made of brick, laid in a variation of an English cross bond pattern.