Fake 121

A building in Brading High Street which I presently believe to be a hairdresser, which it was not two years ago. The current High Street that is, not 'The Mall' a bit further along and home to such important places as the local surgery. Also a bit higher up and possibly a bit posher in the days that Brading was a port, with all the rough and tumble that that entails.

While down on the High Street it seems that it was OK to fake the corner stone work - quoins to the knowledgeable - with slices of what I presume are cement mortar.

PS: later: I associate this Saturday morning to the practise whereby bricklayers build up the corners of the house that they are building and then fill in between. Get the corners right and the flanks will follow.

Reference 1: https://psmv4.blogspot.com/2021/06/fake-120.html.

Reference 2: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quoin. A modest entry.

Reference 3: https://archive.org/details/stylesofarchitec00rick/page/n371/mode/2up. With long and short work being an older term - to be found by searching for 'quoin'.