Diapering on a Suffolk house. Dark headers (bricks used with their ends outward facing) which have been over-burnt in the hottest part of the kiln form a decorative pattern in combination with lighter-coloured bricks.
A Leicestershire cottage roofed with corrugated iron. Thanks to its lower maintenance requirements, metal sheeting often replaced thatch from the late nineteenth century beginning a new rural roofing tradition. The cottage has squared, coursed rubble walls, exposed timber lintels over windows and a chimney rebuilt in brick.