Brick
The raw ingredients of brick are sand, clay and water. Before the 1830s these three ingredients were mixed either by hand or by animals driving a heavy roller around a mixing pit
Diapering
When bricks of different colours are used to make a regular pattern, it is called diapering
Stone Walls
Houses made from stone
The colour of the stone varies from region to region.
Walls
Houses made from Wood
Colt House
Colt houses have a wooden frame
Weatherboard Houses
Weatherboarding is the cladding or ‘siding’ of a house consisting of long thin boards that overlap one another horizontally on the outside of the wall. The boards are hung over bricks and protect the bricks from the weather, hence the name weatherboard.
The raw ingredients of brick are sand, clay and water. Before the 1830s these three ingredients were mixed either by hand or by animals driving a heavy roller around a mixing pit
Diapering
When bricks of different colours are used to make a regular pattern, it is called diapering
Stone Walls
Houses made from stone
The colour of the stone varies from region to region.
Walls
Houses made from Wood
Colt House
Colt houses have a wooden frame
Weatherboard Houses
Weatherboarding is the cladding or ‘siding’ of a house consisting of long thin boards that overlap one another horizontally on the outside of the wall. The boards are hung over bricks and protect the bricks from the weather, hence the name weatherboard.