Some examples of Flemish English bond incorporate stretchers of one colour and headers of another.
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13 Facts About English bond
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Great variety of monk English bond patterns allow for many possible layouts at the quoins, and many possible arrangements for generating a lap.
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In spite of these complexities and their associated costs, the English bond has proven a common choice for constructing brickwork in the north of Europe.
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Such an example of a raking monk English bond layout is shown in the New Malden Library, Kingston upon Thames, Greater London.
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Many other particular adjustments of course alignment exist in monk English bond, generating a variety of visual effects which differ in detail, but often having the effect of directing a viewing eye diagonally down the wall.
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Bond's horizontally extended proportion suits long stretches of masonry such as garden walls or the run of brickwork over a ribbon window; conversely, the English bond is less suitable for a surface occupied by many features, such as a Georgian facade.
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However, whilst the heading courses are identical with those found in the standard English bond, the stretching courses alternate between a course composed entirely of stretchers, and a course composed of stretchers half off-set relative to the stretchers two courses above or below, by reason of a header placed just before the quoins at either end.
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The English bond is widely found in Northern France, Belgium and the Netherlands.
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All bricks in this English bond are headers, but for the lap-generating quoin three-quarter bat which offsets each successive courses by half a header.
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Header English bond is often used on curving walls with a small radius of curvature.
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All bricks in this English bond are stretchers, with the bricks in each successive course staggered by half a stretcher.
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Rat-trap English bond substantially observes the same pattern as Flemish English bond, but consists of rowlocks and shiners instead of headers and stretchers.
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Pinwheel English bond is made of four bricks surrounding a square half-brick, repeated in a square grid.
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