quoining

The only relief from the severity of the facade coming from the quoining at each corner.

An attractive structure, it had cream-coloured quoining on the corners and around the gothic windows.

Elements like the chunky door surround and the quoining - the raised blocks at the corners of the house - have been picked out in black paint.

Belton is faced with the local Ancaster stone, with a lighter ashlar from Ketton for the quoining.

The house is constructed of red brick with ashlar quoining and the principal facade, terminated by symmetrical matching bays, has tall paned windows.

The ground floor has pronounced banded rustication, a motif which is taken through the three floors above in the pilaster-like quoining at each corner of the building.

It features decorative quoining, gable and hipped rooflines, and terra cotta decorative details.

The exhibition building was a twin-towered palazzo in stuccoed brick, with corner turrets and the bold quoining already exhibited in the Dunedin Public Warehouse.

This load bearing quoining is common in Anglo-Saxon buildings such as that of St Bene't's Church in Cambridge, England.

No. 770 is more modernistic, with plain walls; No. 778 uses extensive quoining - in which stone blocks are brought out at the corners - and much more elaborate detailing.

The anchorages were heavily ornamented in the Beaux-Arts style with cartouches, complicated quoining and other decorative stonework that had the lacy delicacy of the present Grand Central Terminal.

At first glance there seems little unusual about the facade of 80 Leonard Street - the diamond-shaped quoining (corner blocks) and other elements can be found a decade or more earlier on other buildings.

The Georgian-period house in the Queen Anne style is situated on the brow of a hill rising from the Derwent valley, and is constructed out of red brick and dressed with stone, and uses rusticated stone quoining of millstone grit.