BUCKINGHAM 



specimen of early eighteenth-century work; 

 brick, and octagonal in form. The bricks are laid 

 in what is known to builders as the ''Flemish 

 bond," the "headers" — those bricks, namely, 

 which present their ends to view — being black 

 and arranged to form a diamond pattern. The 

 dormer window and the lantern in the roof are 

 both modern. The string-course round the 

 walls is made of moulded bricks, while pilasters 

 adorn theangles. The doorway has asegmental 

 head. Immediately above it, on a plaster panel 

 framed in moulded brick, are the initials and 



H. 

 date, G. A. 

 1704. 



In Whitchurch, at a house in a lane south of 

 thechurch,wefinda Buckinghamshireexample 

 of pigeons being accommodated in a dwelling. 

 In the north gable of this house are two rows of 

 entrance-holes. Again, at Cuddington, the vil- 

 lage club has taken possession of what was for- 

 merly Tyringham Hall, a house constructed in 

 the seventeenth century. In one of the attics 

 may be seen some nest-holes built of brick. 



At Burnham Abbey, a little south of themain 



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