Slate - Keswick, Grange

Found the details on this little slate church interesting. The Westmoreland slate with rough edge has been laid randomly with a dry lime mortar mix. 

The vertically laid slate arches exaggerate the arches making them a feature.

The buttresses are slate cladded with slate coping stones.

The roof is almost entirely slate with a triangular brick coping stone. The slate is a very forgiving stone and damage can easily be overlooked due to its colouring and overall structure.

The overall identity of the church is quaint, blending into the natural landscape. 

This house is a excellent example of slate quoins with a random slate arrangement, slate head jambs and sills (slopes). These windows are sunken exposing the mortar which the slate on the exterior wall has been cladded onto.

This will have been carried out by building two skins of wall and the gap in the middle will have been filled with waste slate (chips). The inside face could be rough or not so neat as it would normally be rendered and painted. The pointing round the openings is to form a seal between he wall and the door/window frame.

Both the church and the house are twee, following a more traditional style of slate architecture. 

This house is an example of uniform cut slate which has been laid in a much more regular manor. The windows in this house are white wooden frames with slate sills and white fascia boards, providing a modern aesthetic.

This house augmented, and displays more of a regimented style yet nested into the woodland setting nicely.