| Term | Definition | Tags |
| Lead Brick: | Used when building walls that are circular on plan. When the first one or two courses have been set ... | |
| Modillions: | A series of moulded bricks that project and form brackets below a cornice.... | |
| Saddleback Coping: | Coping that has two upper faces sloping to a ridge. For 1B. and 1.5B. walls there are coping bricks ... | |
| Serpentine Wall: | Usually a 1B. boundary wall; the wall, on plan, is built with large radii segmental curves that are ... | |
| Soldier Course: | A course, or part of one, of bricks set upright (soldier like) and may be flush with the wall face o... | |
| String Course: | A decorative band that is horizontal, and continuous, along the face of a wall; can be of Soldier Br... | |
| Terracotta: | A hollow block, made from a low-grade fireclay or ganister, which is kiln fired at a high temperatur... | |
| Tile Creasing: | (See Bricks & Materials). Creasing Tiles are sometimes used to form a Gable Shoulder, as an alte... | |
| Trammel: | A rod used to set the first few courses of a wall circular on plan, say up to a radius of 2m. The ro... | |
| Tuck Pointing: | Originally known as \tuck and pat work". Developed early in the 18th. Cent. it remained popular up t... | |
| Tumbling-In: | A method of reducing the projection of an attached pier, or the width of an external chimney breast,... | |
| Verge: | Courses of brickwork, usually two or three, which slope with the pitch of the roof to create a finis... | |
