[MassHistPres] Brick nogging

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After the fire that destroyed most of the (1702)Wayside Inn,  Sudbury in 1955, they took everything down to the beams as they restored/rebuilt it starting from the south front and working back. Preservationist Roy Baker was in charge, and the step by step photographic record shows brick nogging in only the front facing south (but the other walls had been rebuilt many times as the Inn grew). But it was only 3 or 4 feet high. As far as I know it was left. Dr. Donald Shelly of Greenfield Village, could not explain it at the time. Years later I found that the Faulkner House (pre 1710), part of the Iron Work Farm in South Acton, also had nogging but supposedly all the way around the original. That house had been garrisoned as protection from mauraudering bands of Indians in this area until as late as 1714. Thus was it used sometimes to give you a musket ball barrier from Indian attack? 
We will have to pay more attention to Diary's of this period 
to learn why. Sometimes the answer is in some obscure unpublished journal. 
Lee Swanson - Sudbury HS
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  From: Anne Forbes 
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  One aspect of the insulation function of brick nogging, if it fills the wall cavity reasonably tightly, would be for a wind stop.  Which was of course also what the later back-plastering performed very well.  Not to mention all those wadded up bits of newspaper we sometimes find stuffed between sheathing boards.  

  Anne Forbes,
  Acton
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    In later 19th century houses one sometimes finds "back plastering" where there is a layer of lath and plaster inside exterior walls (especially north side).  This practice appears to be designed to create a double air space for insulation purposes.  I'm guessing that it started after cut nails and sawn lath decreased the price of plastering and that it was a logical improvement over brick nogging.

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    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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