Stone walls
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Lin Thorley
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Stone walls
Anyone know what a 'list' wall was? The term is used to describe a kind of stone wall in the 18th Century - 3 types given: "mortar walls, list walls; dry walls and quick [hawthorn]". (Billingsley 1794). Can't find a definition of list anywhere.
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AMerrillGlover
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Re: Stone walls
'This wall is partly dry, and partly cemented with mortar, or what is commonly called a list wall'. Presumably known as a list wall because of the tendency of the unmortared top to list to one side.
Taken from: John Billingsley, General View of the Agriculture of the County of Somerset: With Observations on the Means of Its Improvement, 4:1 (1794), p. 62. Available here: https://play.google.com/store/books/det ... AAJ&rdot=1
Taken from: John Billingsley, General View of the Agriculture of the County of Somerset: With Observations on the Means of Its Improvement, 4:1 (1794), p. 62. Available here: https://play.google.com/store/books/det ... AAJ&rdot=1