Fake 4

Fake 4 follows on quite neatly from fake 3, as the rustication of stone was invented at about the same time as quoins moved from being structural to being decorative. I find that the technique, used for the ground level courses, works very well to effect a pleasing transition between a manufactured building and the raw, natural & wild ground on which it sits. A trick which most exhibitors of outdoor sculpture have yet to learn.

Amusing how we all-too-clever humans manage to move from dressed stone being posh to roughing up dressed stone to make it look as if were not dressed being posh.

From there, it did not take much for some enterprising concrete yard to think of a neat way to rough up small concrete blocks to make them look as if they were expensive, rusticated stone. From memory, this may involve nothing more complicated than snapping them in half, leaving the snapped edges naturally rusticated. A technique which has been around for at least half a century, with my first coming across it in a domestic building on the border between Devon and Dorset.

In this case, a front garden wall rather than ground level courses.

Reference 1: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rustication_(architecture).

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