[MassHistPres] Brick nogging

[Zimmerman Sally]

Re: English building practices and brick infill, Abbott Cummings, Framed
Houses of Mass. Bay, p. 11 states: "The use of brick for the infilling
of walls, often in herringbone patterns, did not become in any sense
widespread in England until the seventeenth century."
 
Whether nogging reflects this decorative use, I would defer to
Cummings' reticence to ascribe the practice here to an English practice,
but that nogging here is deliberate and not a way to dispose of
construction refuse is a certainty.
 
 
 
Sally Zimmerman
Preservation Specialist
Historic Homeowner Program
185 Lyman Street
Waltham, MA 02452-5645
New Phone Contact: 
(617) 994-6644 Direct
 


>>> rebecca mitchell <rufusrulesok at hotmail.com> 1/29/2010 1:01 PM >>>
James Garvin's Building History of Northern New England has a good
photograph and brief discussion of brick nogging on p. 53.  When a north
wall of my house (c 1725) was opened for a sill repair we discovered
nogging of bricks (whole and broken) and clay.  In addition to the
reasons already raised (insulation, fire retarding) I have wondered if
the practice might have been simply a vestige of English building
practice.  It seems more deliberate than simply a means to dispose of
construction refuse.

Rebecca Mitchell 
200 Portsmouth Ave. 
Stratham, NH 03885 
(603) PRimrose 8-7979



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> I concur with the previous writers that the reasons for filling walls
with brick were probably for insulation and protection from vermin, but
I have never read anything written in the 17th or 18th centuries about
the reasons. I remember Abbott Cummings being asked once about brick
nogging. He said wasn't certain, but pointed out the great need for
insulation. He cited a quote from Judge Samuel Sewall, who said, "The
ink froze in my inkwell, though I write by a good fire in my wife's
chamber."
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