Mystery building time. All I know about this is that I took the photo while on the Ecclesbourne Railway.
The design also seems a bit of a mystery. Why brick AND stone? Was the original building stone and the brick is a development? Surely that would be almost as expensive as knocking it down and starting again? It's certainly a very neat join.
That said, the results are very attractive and this would make a nice model. Perhaps a prototype for that day when you run out of brick or stone Plastikard and the shops are shut, but you have some spare sheets of another finish...
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Does the brick cover the 'public' side of the building? Brick could have been more expensive than stone when the building was built, so for the sake of appearances and a bit of prestige it could have been built with a brick frontage and local stone sides and rear.
My house, like many others in Derbyshire, has a dressed stone front and rubble walling for the other walls.
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