Re: Re: Brick

@GrahamH wrote:

We don’t know this at all! Indeed I have yet to come across a single example in Dublin, let alone even a vaguely convincing one, where yellow brick was colourwashed and/or pointed using red mortar from the outset of the building’s construction.

That’s because some of us are refusing to accept the evidence that’s been put before us 😉

The way I understand it, ninty five percent of Georgian facade brickwork was tuck pointed, (do we agree with that ?), using red mortar and thin projecting lines of lime putty to imitate the other five percent that was high quality red, fine jointed, gauge brickwork.

That is the context in which I’ve always understood that the practice of using cheaper local yellow brick started, when they discovered that, employing the same combination of tuck pointing in use on red brickwork, yellow brickwork could be made appear not dissimilar and with presumably a considerable cost saving, as with the Capel Street house that started this discussion.

@hutton wrote:

. . . . how can one explain well-detailed terraces on Lower Gardiner Street, near Talbot Street – there’s some great examples of high-end development with walls of perfected blind windows, all in yellow/ brown brick?

@GrahamH wrote:

. . . . quite the opposite, from what I can make out – you need to go back to the 1790s to include the first, and by all accounts very substantial, yellow brick terraces of Gardiner Street.

I think you’re both way off the mark on that one.

The terraces of Lower Gardiner Street look 1820s to 1830s to me, which explains the yellow brickwork, as far as I’m concerned. There’s nothing there on the 1797 map and the terraces up the hill on Middle Gardiner Street and even Upper Gardiner Street, as with Mountjoy Square (not finished until 1818) were all red brickwork.

1797 map showing no development between Beresford Place and Middle Gardiner Street, and little indication that development was imminent.

As far as I know that former church behind the loop line bridge, designed by Frederick Darley (Gardiner St. Dole Office), was built circa 1838! The brickwork here is indisputably yellowish brown and it matches very well with the brickwork of the adjoining terraces, including that one with the blind windows on the side elevation noted by hutton.

Starting a smear campaign? , . . . . gunter doesn’t feed on puppy dogs!