The flank of 127 High St, next to the John Pounds , ragged school site and church. A large unbroken area except for the
memorial intrusion
As no grout/mortar, all the underlying tile layer can be seen
as evidence of mathematical tiles and not weather-struck recessed mortar to brick.
An acute angle shot showing the good degree of coplanarity
The memorial came after the tiles were laid and before the church appeared
presumably
Only readable part , ordinary camera positioning, requires a horizontal monopod, letters SACR only. Later better angled pic revealed the words
Sacred, John Gibbs,Widow, Husband and the date ....R 1812. Presumably a burial stone dating to an 1812 internment at the earlier church, so these tiles were hung earlier than 1812.
New example, found in August 2017.
Then 10 doors farther south along the road, 121
High St. Jack House gallery, from the current owner , the building
was new build 1963 . She was unaware of the tiles or reason for them.
They look like cement roof-tile material, perhaps cement rather than
fired clay. Included here as mathematical tile in concept and shape of the rarer Helmingham format and new-build and un-mortared. Rather magnificent lantern of the pub next door also.
Showing edge form of Helmingham and a number of lower edges, as alot of
slippages evident. Presumably a downside of not having been mortared as well
as nailed.
A broken tile showing the relative horizontal lines
showing part of the edge angles
Gosport
Number 2 , High St , Gosport
No one of the dentitsts' practise there was aware the frontage
was tile rather than brick. A lot of damaged tiles lower level
presumably from different brass plaques over the centuries.
The current ones are fitted to a backboard, presumably
covering a terrible mess underneath. Tapping with a knuckle,
many have hollow sound and a couple are loose and a rattling noise.
The left edge, showing as tiles, including where someone had slid in
a plain tile , better than mortar fill anyway
Right hand edge and some spalled ones. Shows a neat disguise
of the upper working faces of the tiles under the window sill, stucco
disguised as a sill?
An exposed lower edge , on the lower section of wall, so easy to view.
Showing , at low level, the exposed edge of a tile where the pointing
material has fallen away.
Second example at number 41 High St, Gosport, this time modern
mathematical tiles and no mortar/grout/pointing.
Numerous examples showing the exposed lower edge
Towards the top, a lot of vertical gaps showing the underlying
fixing face of the tiles below.
Under a sill exposed left edge of a tile.
Haslar Naval Hospital, Haslar Rd
Number 14 MOIC's in the publically available buildings
listing, but no reference to mathematical tiles. MOIC presumably Medical Officer in Charge.
A retired Gosport architect told me I should take a look at Haslar naval hospital for such tiles. I joined a heritage tour of the 92 acres , but saw no examples. A great number of buildings of Georgian architecture, but all except one had the southwest weather faces , where if there were tiles I'd expect
to see them, rendered over or an extension built over those faces.
The one exception was this one where the upper section was rendered over
but lower had this odd blue-grey protrusion. The relevant wall is indicated by the > in the pic above. Looks as though it is 300x600mm
modern fibre-cement "slates". But as , even overlapped they are barely
10 mm thick, why are they not nailed to the underlaying bricks, so
then would be much the same thickness as the upper pebbledash, rather than jutting out well beyond the plane of the rendering. Haslar Heritage Group
I've not seen the original , or higher resolution version of this pic, taken at
an earlier date, presumably when the architect was in practice around
Gosport. Balance of probability I would say they are mathematical tiles rather than hanging tiles,
certainly not hanging slates, and 4 or so of them look like slipped brick-size tiles. The angled face showing of the lower working face of the tile below, intercepting more of the sun and so brighter than the
vertical faces. The colour looks right for tiles compared to the
bricks of the front facade. Thin fillet of mortar down the right edge to the front face, consistent with tiling thickness , not brick thickness. The lower edge of the continuation tiles , next to the
conservatory, would be very odd for bricks laid like that, jutting out a foot above ground level. So far I've not seen behind the wall showing in the bottom left corner, maybe some
of the original tiles remain there uncovered, as not part of the main building. Leadwork under the cills of the windows to the rear of
the conservatory also suggest tiles.
Perhaps the cement slates fixed with blind fixings to steel
bars on a steel frame , to preserve the tiles
underneath, then lead work around the edges. Usually, if not constrained by heritage building regs, the failed tiles would be ripped off and then fibre-cement slates fixed straight to the brickwork. Further research required . I don't know if covered over
MT counts but 4 examples in Gosport makes it equal ranking in Hampshire, to Basingstoke and Soton, also 4 examples.
A view of the same section of wall ,as of 2015,from the public Haslar Rd.
A curiosity of the hospital , an NHS blue automatic door set in
a Georgian door case.
Holy Trinity Church, Gosport
An attendant in the church advised a light tap to the tiles, and every
header I tried , in the main areas of "brick" away from corners,
sounded hollow on front and rear and both sides.
I spent half an hour going round the perimeter of this large church, one way and then around the other way before finding a clue.
This fingernail bit of missing mortar under the cross
on the rear. Showing top ledge of the fair face and sloping
fixing face at the edge.
Rear elevation
Then a just observable hint of the sloping side of one next to a brick
section.
And not until viewing the pics of high up on the wall , did I see
this lower edge of one. A missing pair of tiles high on the apse section
at the rear were inconclusive because of the angle from the ground,
so pic not placed here. In the same area , the mess around a lead rainwater
spout, were inconclusive, as was a bored circular hole in that section also.
If you visit this church, try and view the full tree trunk main supports
of the roof, through a little viewing door, in the covering and the
300 hundred yearold organ with Handel connections.
King's Somborne
The Old Vicarage, Old Vicarage Lane, King's Somborne, 51°4.653'N,1°29.022'W . Only the rear is supposed to have mathematical tiles. The white appearance to the mortar could indicate
proper putty bedding has been used. No sign of MT on the front elevation as full colour match for the brickwork at the reveals and the edges, but , more so in real viewing, in the sunlight there is a bowing to the header end faces , see Chilland below. The only view from public space of the rear
Raking sunlight picking up the "cobble" of the "headers" compared
to the flat appearance where they are in tree shade , in lower left
Whole frontage of the very imposing vicarage
Chilland
Mill Cottage, Chilland, near Itchen Abbas, SU 523 326 = 51°5.418', 1°15.165'W , near the mill . No edges seen. Dendate eaves.
Itchen Stoke
Stoke Manor Farmhouse, Itchen Stoke and Ovington 51°5.297'N,1°11.714'W . Set back off the road. The right edge can be seen through shrubbery. A slight indication of tile edges , that did not photograph well.
New Alresford
43 Broad St 43 Broad St 51°5.485'N,1°9.660'W .
View of a couple of tile edge forms at broken away rendering, along with the fire insurance plate
27 East St, then 25 East St
51°5.375'N,1°9.405'W.
Right edge and a broken tile.
Numerous spalled/broken tiles, opposite where John Arlott lived in latter life, qv the mathematical tiled house where he was born in Basingstoke , like Jane Austen in that sense.
Preferable to rendering and then painting over the whole facade. Hopefully external plaster or weak render , hopefully not underkeyed to the existing whole and part tiles, dyed and scribed to sort of match in.
25 East St, Alresford.
Upper section only, a broken /missing one, and roof tile/hanging tile fudge? .
another problem area under the eaves
Number 26 mathematical tiles?, but numerous "bricks" had these mid-way marks that looked more like part wire cuts than cracks.
See Preston Candover, so by associative evidence probability-wise, number 26 must
also be mathematical tiles.
About the only signature appears 2018 , some dropped away fillet showing an edge at
the ground floor window
http://www.diverse.4mg.com/alresford_east20.jpg ,
Bishops Sutton
Bishops Sutton, Newhouse Farmhouse, 51°4.875'N,1°7.761'W
White painted, dendate eaves
A suggestion of tile edge forms under the paint, but does show lack
of sync between side brick courses and front tile courses.
Ropley
51°4.998'N ,1°5.785'W Ropley House. Set well back from the public road, no MT evidence seen
Something odd about the left edge , one brick deep return? ,
http://www.diverse.4mg.com/ropley_edge.jpg
Hinton Ampner
Manor Farmhouse, Bramdean and Hinton Ampner, 51°2.615'N, 1°8.665'W. Very good appearance.
Left edge.
Right edge
Dentillate form and
what I've never seen before and what I'd never expected to see, a tension bar spreader abutting mathematical tiles. Explanation , for those of you wishing to mull it over before reading the explanation, towards the end.
Preston Candover
South of the garage, Green Garth
, Preston Candover , in the heritage records. Reg of the village man and boy , the sexton,post office staff, and the village policeman none of whom had heard
of Green Garth. Reg remembered the forge replaced by the garage , now replaced by housing. I'd walked past the front house and seeing
bright lichen-free brickwork , I'd dismissed this cottage as not mathematical tiles. Now called Parsely Cottage 51°10.238'N ,1°7.909'W
on the B3046 , and the one behind it. The front cottage was rebuilt in
1996 probably with all new tiles.
Side view
A close up showing at least 12 examples of the same "wire cut" marks
apparent in the 26 East st , Alresford example above.
As these are at ground level it is obvious they are 2 header tiles adjascent to one another to make a stretcher (snap headers?). Such is the precision of the manufacture that the join is so regular in all 3D aspects that it looks like one tile with an incised line. I did not think to check with a needle in the gap and as continuous colour and form match across each line, on second thoughts they are probably unsnapped snap-cut tiles. Anyone know the maker of these and the Alresford modern examples , someone has re-learnt how to retain the registration via the drying and firing and QC process. Worthy of larger bandwidth portrayal here. My guess would be Keymer Tiles, been making MT
for centuries (an old roof tile of theirs is in Fareham Museum, Westbury House)
The associated cottage behind, with Parsley cottage to the right.
The left edge of the tiled section in the middle.
The right edge , angling exposed where the vertical fillet closure plank quoin has lifted and at the window reveals
Basingstoke
Yes the concrete jungle, has more examples than Winchester.
The gothic-looking Victorian Lodge, built 1856, to the Holy Ghost Chapel cemetary on Chapel Hill. John Arlott's birthplace. 51°16.144'N ,1°6.79'W
So many tell-tales of MT. The undersides showing thinness and support strips.
edges exposed under missing rendering
A corner mathematical tile from underneath. Looking up it seems
only that large iron bolt, and localised pressure point, is holding this tile and the ones above it,
the perhaps onetime wood underneath having rotted away.
What is holding up what is often a conundrum with MT.
Goldings , London Rd , Basingstoke has mathematical tiles
but only the original entrance on London Road. Even then
requires the Basingstoke trail guide saying "By tapping
the "bricks" around the former London Road entrance, the mathematical tiles can be identified , as they sound hollow".
Which in fact they do, evening-time without the traffic and building occupants, no other indication observed other than maybe a nail holding one in place, just a rusty looking stain in a recess.
A slightly greyer shade of yellow for that section
Close up and the dentilling.
London Street, Basingstoke.
The Kebab shop and the Lime Tree in London Street,numbers 25-26 . Neither
proprietor knew anything about the tiling. And the estate agent next door was not aware either.
Some missing grout/mortar showing the lower edge of a tile.
A small chip of paint probably revealing original orange colour.
Large areas of what looks like scratched mortar/render under the disguising paint.
Went for a pint at the White Hart, London Rd . A couple of steps down from street level, must be an old building. Sat in the beer garden and looked up. The central oldest section of the rear had dentillated eaves and shallow window reveals and on closer inspection the angled
traces of tile edges on the window reveals, alongside satellite dish of all things.
This example is not in the heritage record as far as I know. The manager couple were intrigued and not aware . Unfortunately not able to view close up as canopy and flower boxes etc.
But viewing from the entrance driveway to the counciloffices and
so looking across to the pub
And the gable end , at the council entrance , because of the
significant bowing to some of the "stretchers".
7 Winchester Street
In the heritage records as having MT but no definite sign seen.
Same terracotta frieze as Goldings and next door and number 1.
Very rough "brickwork" but then next door at number 9, even
more rough. Also otherwise superfluous leadwork.
Number 1 Winchester St, if the White Hart has them then
same sign here, the very top parapet , return edge suggests the
angled joins of MT, will retake sometime with a tripod camera shot.
A betting shop, now joining a kebab shop.
A later pic , with scaffold erected , but no one around to ask for permission
to climb up and tap some. The only protective nod to the terracotta frieze of the yellow plastic endcaps, no such for the tiles , presumably because no one had told the scaffolders. Red > marking cracked mortar, giving away one of the edge of tile joins.
Hoddington House , Upton Grey
On Lee Lane. May 2015, empty and looking somewhat derelict and according to local rumour, to be partly demolished and rebuilt.
The left section of the rear is all mathematical tile up to the pair of
bow topped windows.
A distant view from the path, through the fields, to the rear
Part of the dereliction. The problem with rubbed and gauged brick arches, they are not self supporting, without iron support hoops, when the mortar fails as they can slide out. Some wind must have
caught this one and drove it a bit sideways on the way down, to knock into the tilework ,
whole brick and broken tiles still laying on the ground. Other such brick arches in a delapidated and danergous state , on other facades.
Colateral damage, see Havant. So red tiles over red brick, unusual.
At an upper level, over-exposed view of lower edge of the
tile above a broken tile
I don't remember seeing this solution to the external angle problem.
Would have required some work before the days of diamond faced saws and discs.
The right of this image is the main rear run of tiles , meeting a small return wall of tiles, its internal corner, is simple butted.
So tile interlaced and interlocked with tile, so giving a windproof junction. Why not make a feature of these tiles rather than hide these awkward joins, always somewhat unsatisfactorily. Wood rots, render falls off, stucco can come away in slabs, pulling off tiles with it.
Not to ground level, spalled bricks not tiles
There are also tiles on the northern side facade adjascent to the front.
Certainly sound hollow to knuckle tap. Pic of an exposed lower edge
underexposed and not focused too well so not placed here, a pic instead of the undulating or rippling effect of the
tiles at a high level instead.
South Warnborough, Vine Cottage
So often the case, find one example of mathematical tiles in a road and there is often
another example. The other end of Lee Road at Lee Hill ,
South Warnborough. About all you can see from the road is the mathematical tiles at the upper level, as the cottage is hidden behind
a slightly topiarised large box hedge. Note the method used
to support modern guttering and the dentillation.
A large section of tiles fell away in the 1990s , not due to wind but
to frost, sequence was a lot of rain the previous day, overnight temperature dropped to below freezing and the next morning , when the sun rose , the ice sublimed to vapour explosively. Replacement tiles , for this whole upper section were made at the then
Selborne Brick Works, whether the 2015 reincarnation will be making them again, we'll have to see.
[ From the Selborne Bricks MD in august 2015 "I see no reason why we would not continue offering mathematical tiles,
although they are a minority product as there is a fair bit of labour
(=cost) in them." From A.C.Taylor Ewell Symposium booklet, Selborne mathematical tiles in late 70s or early 80s cost 40p each ]
Wattle and daub still evident in the loft. Unfortunately the tile face was not waterproof when driving rain came up the valley and had to be silicone treated.
The left hand end, from the road.
The right hand end from the road.
With permission from the owner, the edges of the tiles showing
at a lower section of original tiles on the rear part of the building that was
a wainwright workshop in its history, between downpipe and cables .
And hollow sound to knuckle tapping the tiles, compared to nearby bricks.
One way round the window lintle and exposed working faces of these
tiles problem, somewhat like the Jane Austen House example.
Canford Magna
Straying into Dorset. The Brook, Canford Magna, Dorset.
Just south of the brook under the road, itself just south of the triangle
of path containing an enshrubbed seat. Dentillation at eaves.
Just the north flank is tiled, part of edge at a piece of missing rendering.
a broken tile
Blandford Forum
Some MT in Blandford Museum
Bethune ,Bryanston St "A small two-storied building of the late 18th century with a three-bay south front
faced with mathematical tiles imitating brickwork in English bond."
in the building records. On the private side of the building ,but no more, according to the owner.
The MT slid off the wall and are now buried in the garden.
Loose one, gain one?
Waiting at the bus stop in East st I looked up at number 73, right architecture and period , AFAIK, not in the buildings register
as far as having MT. The phantom core sampler has been active in
Dorset as well as Wilts and Hants , but not Berks yet.
The Age UK shop building was originally built by the notorious local
Bastard brothers.
One of the core sampled holes viewed, straight on, from the top deck of a bus, unfortunately with engine running, but showing a complete white ring.
24 East St, Blandford, the Artisan House
Plenty of edges to be seen
Blue plaque recording the fact about MT
The phantom core sampler, showing white layer cut through.
Salisbury St, Blandford
2 properties in Salisbury St,6 and 8, the leftmost number 8 , perhaps worse state than Lugley St, Newport.
Recent replacements, modern lack of coplanity and note the boxy cross section, not the usual "tick" cross section
Isle of Wight
Newtown
Newtown Town Hall ,50°42.754'N ,1°23.996'W.
The exposed edges on the right.
Exposed underside at a missing tile
Official vandalism, why could they not remove a brick at the other end for a donation box
Freshwater
Farringford Hotel, Bedbury Lane, 50°40.431'N ,1°31.353'W Tennyson House.
The original MT in a bad way, some MT edges marked E and a bulging
section marked B
2016 , after an extensive renovation , including new MT on these upper level. No indication seen of MT these days. The only secondary evidence being the extenside , force spreading, lead escutcheons holding
downpipes to the wall, and otherwise superflous leadwork above the
downpipe hoppers , presumably going up behind the tiles.
Compare with brickwork proper on the rest of the building,
normal iron clamps and fixings for the downpipes and no lead covering
the brick course above the hopper openings.
Only slight chance this house has MT, just in cse , placed here.
White Cottage, Hill Lane, Freswater, adjascent to the church.
Just the one hint, may or may not be the angled right edge of a MT
showing on the return down the side of the house, not enough
length or contrast with the mortat to be sure.
Nunwell House, Brading
Nunwell House ,Brading , 50°40.993'N ,1°9.446'W.
The side wall with tiling and dentilated eave.
You can just make out the black areas to the rear of the lower edges of the fronts of some of the upper tiles
So successful was the deceipt here that the house's building
surveyor owner and occupier, Cecil Aspinall-Oglander, a hundred years ago, was
totally unaware of them on his own house until electricity supply
was installed in 1925.
Newchurch
Wacklands, Longlands Lane, Newchurch, Isle of Wight ,
50°39.689'N ,1°12.993'W . Too far from the public road to make out anything.
Cowes, IoW
Tipped off by a local builder, I'd previously passed this example ,
but so complete is the deceipt that I'd missed the small clues that are there. Union House, Union Rd directly opposite Church Rd.
The main clue is the audible one, the most conclusive visual clue requires very
precise alignment of camera in zoom , on a tripod. I'll try again
, the exposure here only just shows the edge of the near vertical
working face of one of the tiles, between the red Vs.
The edge of the top ledge of a fair face
The under edge of a "header" exposed at some flashing, along
with the awkward joining of tiles between the 2 properties. There is
a very slight tonal difference to the tiles of the 2 frontages
And another just exposed lower edge, again at the juncture of the 2
properties
A mortar fudge under a window
The rear view, no sign of mathematical tiles seen.
Modern brown maths tiles on the very work-a-day Corries Cabin
fish and chip shop, Cowes , Shooters Hill. The "shop-girl" there since 1983 was not aware of the tiles, no one had mentioned them before, and no change with them in that time.
Exposed edges at the window
Hanging tiles to the side and fudged corner covering
Townsend House, Watchtower Lane, Cowes
A local Cowes resident told me that when a relative of his had lived
at this house "what looked like bricks were not bricks".
I'd closely looked at this house previously and seen no clues as to
being tiles.
A close look at the rear , over the wall of the lane, a black line
of the inner edge of the lower face of a tile, if you get the
camera angle just right.
If Ivy House 1762, 18 Sun Hill , Cowes has mathematical tiles then
it is probably the 3 high string courses of yellow, cut down? or the curved bays . Tensioning bars cannnot bear against tiles, lead strip over the top of the string, and mess at the right hand corner. Shallow window reveals though. Unless it is MT specified for a new-build cottage in the garden grounds.
Internet reference to rear of 8 Cliff Rd, Cowes maybe having modern
MT, nothing seen due to gated communities and high hedges.
9 Medina Rd, Cowes
Is there anything hiding under this protruding modern hanging tile
weather-face other than perhaps thermal insulation. ?
Georgian building, Captains House, see Haslar for similar
situation.
Wootton Bridge
The Sloop Inn at Wootton Bridge, originally the house of the Wootton tidemill miller, stretcher bond in the MT section.
Quite noticable at night , with oblique lighting from the eaves fixed floodlights.
The bowed form of mathematical tiles, but not enough to show under edges , especially with all the painting over. And in itself not a reliable signature of them being stretcher tiles, although I've never seen bricks bowed in that sense, bowed lengthwise but over the narrow dimension yes, not over the middle dimension, good over the apparent narrow dimension (if brick) that MT often exhibit.
A miller would be able to afford first grade bricks, not such second grade , if they were bricks.
May or not be a hint of an edge splope near a downpipe, but with all the paint filling mortar lines , who knows.
I asked permission of the management and tapped with my
acoustically damped gavel and noticeably hollow sound and also the clip-clop signature sounding of tapping a lower part then an upper part of a few "bricks".
Arreton
Haseley Manor, Heaseley Lane , Arreton next to the cricket ground,
50°40.072'N ,1°13.535'W. A most unusual example, a brick roof.
Again rather distant from the public road.
Ryde
The onetime Prince of Wales 174, High St Ryde IoW.
Notice the return face, high up, two "stretchers" of tile then brick?
A view of the left edges of the tiles
The confusing top right section, interleaving corner
Carisbrooke
On the High St, number one Castle St. The section to the rear of
the shown section is probably brick. A large patch rendered , miscoloured and bucket-handled.
Perhaps not the section to the left although one "brick" low down
is tile probably. The section running to the street corner is all tile.
Some exposed underside edges of 3 tiles on the Castle St elevation
On the High St side , the recess for the down pipe showing
some left edges of mathematical tiles, in the narrow space somewhat
full of moss, cobweb and street grime, but visible to the eye if not too well to camera, even using flash.
Near the front door , slipped slates showing a side edge.
Incidently there is a property farther along the High St with "white" brick that shows what I thought was chromium yellow efflourescense,
that I've seen on a church in West St Fareham and somewhere else that I forget where. Instead of whatever chromium salt that gives that almost
flourescent yellow with a slight hint of green, I think it is a type of lichen, as you can view it close up here. Must be attracted to something that was in the clay of these yellow bricks. Picture taken
of such lichen infestation, on bricks , probably near enough
where they were made, houses in the road from Exbury in the Langley direction
Newport , IOW
16 Lugley St , Newport (not 16 Longley st , WWW mistranscribed reference) with blue plaque and 2 neighbouring houses
The lower edge at the right edge of one tile and crack wedge-line in another
Higher up at the same corner, more obvious wedge-lines
Characteristic wonkey "brickwork" of mathematical tiles,
disguised a bit by later painting
The parlous state of next door, absolutely no trouble confirming
the front is MT. But it does give the opportunity to see, in situ,
the battening method of fixing MT
2018 the owner let me view the featured panel behind the front door
showing the original wattle and daub internal wall, similar to the
Salisbury externally viewable example. No idea where the replacement
salvaged mathematical tiles came from, here or elsewhere.
Some detail at a window reveal.
Lugley House, farther along the street maybe had MT on its west face
once, but now hanging tiles.
The onetime Post Office, 99 High St, Newport, now Prezzo, no one inside
was aware of these tiles on the side wall. Another discovery, not in the
heritage building record as MT, by looking
out from the top deck of a double-decker bus.
These MT keyed into the underlying brickwork better than
the unsafe looking skin of bricks below them
Very high up on the same corner, full MT edges showing, about the top
deck level of a double decker bus.
A possible sighting, 120- 122 High St, Newport. The architecture looks
right but nothing certain about the MT clues
A lower edge showing of something that is not a brick, but could be
painted wood. Also an internet reference to Boots 124-126 High St having MT
Certainly wonky curved "bricks", not enough curvature and mispositioning to show lower edges, but who would accept such low quality brickwork on a prominent High St building?
In the records , that Boots 124-126 High St, Newport has MT, no
evidence seen but bays on right are of the time
Ower
Cheney's Farmhouse, Romsey Rd, Ower,
51°56.997'N, 1°32.078'W
The farmer owner said the upper section here , rendered over and incised with "mortar " lines,
was after a landmine , dropped in the war, demolished a nearby house
and sucked the tiles off that section. The tiles overlay bricks , not wood in any form. A massive wood beam runs the
length of the house. He told me that one of the gate lodges to nearby Paultons Park, had MT but was demolished in recent times.
Tile edges showing at a window reveal.
Eling
The Old Rectory , Eling Hill, Eling ,
50°54'31.34N, 1°28'38.25W
Seaward side
Lower edge exposed over a door
View of the front from the churchyard
There are MT on all elevations, honey coloured
tiles overlaying brick. About 20mm of lime mortar between bricks and the tiles. The central nail hole, so laying under the join line,
of the overlaying tiles, giving easy passage of rainwater, was probably
the reason for failures.
The mess around services pipework
Marchwood
Marchwood Green Farmhouse, Main Rd, Marchwood, 50 yards
from the level crossing,
50°53.357'N, 001°27.218'W.
Right hand edge of front .
Part of the right edge , just about showing the angled edges , under the
rendering
Just showing edge at an upstairs window
Breamore
Breamore, Upper Street, The Rookery
50°57.882'N, 1°47.213'W
The only indicator a chipped all round tile to the right here
Upper Clatford
Only probable one, the Manor House,
Redrice Rd, Upper Clatford.
Right sort of building, dentillation at eaves,
51°11.519'N, 1°29.750'W
But is this a broken brick or a sloping rear of a tile at the end of the door pediment dentillation ? I don't see how a tile can slip away
and leave the mortar run under the lower edge, so no evidence of tiles. Unfortunately some
way from the public environment for picture taking
Salisbury
Over the border , so reduced bandwidth here and triplets , but plenty of choice, 57 examples in Salisbury. Incidently the new home
of Coade Stone production.
15 Oatmeal Row, or Minster St , MT on both faces of the building
38 Silver St, lead under a lintel and underside of a tile can be seen at the canopy recess
46 Silver St, above the cutway to St Thomas Square (2 St Thomas Square ?) complete with tudor bricks on edge in the pavement. Showing a lower edge
48 Silver St, with slipped area
57,58, 59 Silver St (Reeve bakers is 61) no obvious signs, just
otherwise superfluous vertical metal edging .
34 and 35 Blue Boar Row, neither occupier was aware of any mathematical tiling. No signatures of tiling under the paint espied.
But go into Bill's restaurante yard and the rear MT next door are obvious.
Lower edges showing of jettied level and a slipped one lower down.
52 Endless St, under scaffolding in 2016, no signatues seen
but there was a hollow knuckle tap
July 2016 exposed again. With large screw eyes safely fixed through the tiles, for anchoring scaffolding to, no cracked tiles seen.
Thanks to the phantom core sampler again, at the extreme right of the building, white ring of lime putty or lime mortar, otherwise no signature of MT seen
In comparison to similar holes and scaffold anchors on the otherwise matching house next door, no tell-tale white crescent, built of brick.
Presumably the original holes bored through in the wrong place relative to internal structural snchoring points and they had to repeat in a line
3 courses higher. So the phantom core sampler has not hit Wiltshire yet, of 2016.
Minster St. Exposed lower edge of MT on top section and edge view of
the middle MT section.
Also , 11 Minster St, Bath Travel,is the top sections mathematical tiling?
Seeing from a passing bus, I thought this missing one was a tile but
looking at the pic it seems more a broken brick and the exposed
edges , next to the hanging tiles seems too thick. Also the string course
is probably brick rather than stucco (compare with 49 Bugle st Southampton )
In the records as MT, but could not determine which of these was 15 Minster st. Both show disjunctures with neighbouring properties. Subway is 12, RBS 14 so probably the left image.
In the records as 28 and 28A , Cheese Market which seems to be absorbed into Market Place these days, but may well be wrong address but MT on one wall. Or 2 St Thomas's Square. Anyway at the pedestrian passage to St Thomas church, the estate agent occupier unaware of MT, probably 28a
Market Place.
Lower edge of MT exposed.
28 Market Place, the cookware shop. The swinging sign had swung
into the wall, if brick it would have been ok, but not for MT,
looks like boarding as backing material. A left edge showing in
central pane and lower edge in third pane.
64 High St at the Close Gate.
Bulging sections and missing string over a top window and dentillation.
July 2016, what happens to bulging MT, on the way to looking like the mess that is in Salisbury St, Blandford Forum.
56 and 58 High St, showing unkeyed "brickwork" over jetty and
a hint of MT edging under paint along with vertical metal corner piece to 58.
108 Exeter St, only the vertical corner boarding to the over-jetting MT as a clue
82,84 Crane St, you don't expect to see MT on a Pound Shop.
A slipped tile and the internal angle showing where something has
gone out of alignment at a window reveal.
33 The Close, part of the cathedral admin, in the records as MT but no signature seen
But then my walk and talk on MT,20 people, around the centre of Salisbury 11 Sep 2016. I'd told them what to look out for and perhaps with all these
extra eyes , peering around 33 North Walk/The Close. One of the throng, looked up and saw this signature.
Because of the height and camera angle, there is foreshortening of the profile of the tiles.
Builders had recently been in there and must have dislodged a piece of stucco
moulding on an upper storey window, east face at the corner with the wall along North Walk. Ts is the dividing line between MT and Us is part of the working face rear of the underlying tile. Also the leading edge nose showing on the lowest tile in that pic view. It did not look as though anyone was inside and anyway any tile-testing noise would have been masked by the noisey bands in the precincts of the cathedral. So first successful try out of my acoustic damped gavel MT tester under paint. Loads of layers of paint over tiles in the corner of the east and north faces at the top of the street wall height. Of 6 tiles sounded , the characteristic clip-clop of 5 , witnessed by the tour group and one that didn't. Perhaps the "failure" one was over a mortar patch, from perhaps gale damage and reason for painting over the whole lot.
So whatever number about 60 of MT in Salisbury , one more confirmed, on a prestigious site.
20 The Close on the west face
North Walk, on the sides ,a slipped one with front edge showing under, with lead behind and showing behind a down-pipe
Maybe at a couple of places on the rear of Bishop's Wordsworth School, 11 The Close,North Walk
4 St Annes Street, a MT angled edge, some lower edges and some rough "brickwork".
6 St Anne's St. Just as well the phantom core sampler has been up
to his wicked ways, as otherwise there is no sign that this face is MT. The distinct band of underlying mortar showing in the hole.
36 to 38 St Annes Street. Missing tiles and corner detail.
From a Salisbury archaeologist, the colour and texture of these grey
tiles is that of Fisherton Brick works, the natural implication is that
they also made mathematical tiles. So joining Pritchett of IoW as only
known makers of mathematical tiles, in historical times.
26,27,28 St Anne's St with left edge and underside of upper tiles at the right , on the corner with The Friary
Then into the Friary and odd little cell, unsure of its address.
With a tile edge hiding behind pigeon defence.
Goldsmiths, New Canal side of the building, otherwise perhaps 33 Butcher Row.
De Vaux Lodge, 8?, St Nicholas Road, luckily bulge , over timber horizontal frame, just shows the angled edge of a couple of MT.
13 Milford St, right hand edge showing below the batten and a missing section with a dangling broken tile
31 Milford St (? between 21 and 35) , lower edges showing
59 Milford St, hairdressers, from the owner the front was retiled about 1980. Left edges fully exposed, right just the lowest and some at the top
At the top of Milford hill , at the 5-way junction, Milford Hill Cottage,
with cream colour MT on three faces. Under edges showing near the
front door and fourth image close up of the rear showing under edges and the wood? core to support the lead of the corner finishers.
Architecture a bit like the Basingstoke Holy Ghost cemetary gate house.
Some work-a-day examples , 45 Manor Rd, and 26 plus detail and 31 plus detail ,North Walk the Close.
Queen St renovation (number 15 is Well Natural). With top left showing
edges and a section of the presumably original tiles placed at the top and then the right edging.
Cotswold shop, 9 Queen St, showing wonky "brickwork " and then third pane unkeyed
"brickwork" of jettied protrusion of number 4? the only indication of MT on there.
10,12,14 Catherine St, including a GRP carbunkle
13 Catherine St, evidence above hopper and edges behind a downpipe
17-19 Catherine St with left hand edge showing tiling and a lower edge view of tiling at a reveal
12 Catherine St, showing a broken tile
14 Catherine St, with a broken tile
26 ,28 Catherine st
30 Catherine St, left edge exposed and a slipped tile
50 Catherine st, unkeyed "brickwork" over jettying and non-plainarity
Cloisters, corner of 78 Catherine St. Not at all obvious clues. Lower edge of one exposed at corner (red arrow) and the sawtooth edge profile , but under black paint, appropriate for a pub seemingly hung upside down, on the other facade (red arrow), both clues are high up.
47 Winchester St with some left edging exposed and some edging at the extreme right
12,14 and 18 Toone's Court , Scot's Lane , not found , demolished and built over ?
Most unusually , otherwise Brighton some examples of black glaze,
black mirror , mathematical tiles in 2 sections of the Salisbury Guildhall.
(The interior walls coincident with those MT recesses is mirror proper, reflecting the great and the good, the exterior reflecting the great unwashed perhaps. No known reason for them, from talking to the building custodian)
The first shows the mirror effect, a reflection of the right section of brick surround ,showing as the lighter part of this image, and a
broken piece of one tile lower middle, showing the red core colour.
A missing tile showing the grey underglaze on the fixing face and
the black glaze, at least one of the fixing holes and the lower leading
edge of the one 2 tiles above, and bits of base colour showing in places.
With less direct lighting a different visual effect , a random assortment
of grey tones, for a pleasant effect.
6 Park lane at Victoria Park, Salisbury, ground storey. More obvious as MT,
to the rear of the property, third pane of the east side face
List of confirmed and suspected mathematical tile sites in Salisbury (may include duplicates from adresses in 2 adjacent streets for some examples .
15 Oatmeal Row;
9,34,35,37,38,40,46,48,57,58,59 Silver St;
52 Endless St;
11 & 15 Minster St;
28 and 28A Market Place;
2 St Thomas's Square;
56,58, 64 High St;
82,84 Crane St;
11,16,20,26,30,31, 33 , Bishop's Palace & South Canonry, The Close/ North Walk;
4,6,22 to 26,27,28,36 to 38, St Annes Street;
The Friary (road);
108 Exeter St;
33 Butcher Row;
De Vaux Lodge, 8? St Nicholas Road;
13,31,59 Milford St and Milford Hill Cottage;
45 Manor Rd;
34/35/"Bill's"? Blue Boar Row;
4/5?,9 & Cross Keys entrance,Queen St;
10,12,13,14,17,19,26,27,28,29,30,38,50,78 Catherine St;
47 Winchester St;
Salisbury Guildhall;
6 Park lane ;
Riversfield, Lower Road, Bemerton. Next to St Andrews church.
Luckily the owner was cutting the grass and let me photo the
oriel to the north and rear of the building, otherwise "Southampton" white
brick. The tiles are flat headers, to allow the curve and lack weight as no available support underneath. Lower edges exposed near the top .
MT supposed to be on South Canonry and Bishop's Palace, the Close
but as on the riverside and no canoe available, will have to wait
for an open day , if ever. 38 The Close, no MT seen there. MT supposed to
be on the Lodge at Tunnel Hill , Alderbury, opposite St Mary's church but probably
on the south , private side of the building.
With acknowledgement to Gerald Steer and his paper Mathematical Tiles in Salisbury, for some examples I was not aware of.
Downton, Wilts
14 high St, Downton.
"Mathematical tiles to front in 'header bond' " in the buildings records, but I found no clues to that. Other than "iffy" coplanity under the paint, and knuckle tapping a couple of lower bricks , sounded just like brick. The bay window looked spot on architecturally, not the roof light though. No side clues and rear is brick.
On much firmer ground, Burbage , Wiltshire. Lothlorien 113 and Mint Cottage 115 High St, Burbage a few houses up from the White Hart.
Unmistakable orange of tiles above brick, the tiles it what you see from the road. Lower edge line on full view and some in an area of slippage.
Also Marlborough High St, next to Neates Yard, 121 High St.
Although Marlborough is more for aficianados of geometrical tiles as
on the main face of scallops on this shop and of next door.
How many tiles is that one nail holding up, that is showing MT edge angle and is the plastic
down pipe all that is stopping a cascade of bulging tiles on to a main street?
and Rose Tree Silverless St, next to number 8, Marlborough. MT edge angle
showing on the opened up left hand vertical corner joint and the working
face of a tile showing behind a tile above a bay
There may also be another example in Marlborough, unknown address (implied in references section of a Sarum Chronicle article of about 2004.
Berkshire, Hungerford
14 High St , Hungerford
Co-op , much the same distance other side of the railway bridge.
There is a www image on a Hungerford heritage site showing this frontage, as the Co-op, before the upper section of dilapidated-looking tiling was replaced, leaving some older
examples in place it seems. The lower , older section, may not be that old , it looks as though a second rough "glazing" firing for
redder and coarser finish over smoother pinkier terracotta, has been flaking off.
24 high st, Hungerford.
Hungerford Bookshop opposite Park St . Some quite exagerated bowing in evidence , of some presumably fairly recent tiling.
Jettied building to the rear of this Victorian? frontage
