| Ashlar | Hewn or sawn stone in blocks, usually with large faces but often quite thin, carefully squared and laid in level courses with fine joints. |
| Bond | Any system of laying bricks or stone in an interlocking pattern to impart strength and also for decoration. |
| English bond | Bricks laid with alternate courses of broad and narrow faces of bricks |
| Flemish bond | Bricks laid with each course alternately showing of broad and narrow faces of bricks |
| Herringbone bond | Bricks laid diagonally to form a zig-zag pattern |
| Rat-trap bond | As Flemish bond but with bricks on edge. |
| Stretcher bond | Bricks laid with alternate courses of broad and narrow faces of bricks |
| Closer | Brick cut (usually to half width) to finish the bonding pattern at an opening or at the end of a wall. |
| Clunch | Chalk block. |
| Cornice | A horizontal, projecting, decorative band usually placed at the top of a wall or marking off a parapet or gable or, internally, beneath a ceiling. |
| Course | A horizontal row of bricks |
| Dentils (see below) | A series of projecting blocks at regular intervals for decorative effect. |
| Galleting | Small pieces of stone, flint, etc. inserted into mortar joints while they are still soft. |
| Hanging tiles | Tiles hung vertically on exterior of building. |
| Header | A brick laid to expose its smallest (end) face |
| Horsham Stone | Used as roofing. see website of Stone Roofing Association |
| Mathematical tiles | Hanging tiles shaped in section to imitate one face of a brick. |
| Modillions | Decorative brackets or rectangular projections under the eaves. |
| Reigate stone | Used as walling. Soft,medium grained,green/grey,highly calcareous,cretaceous sandstone. |
| Stretcher | A brick laid to expose its long narrow (side) face |
| String course | Decorative course differentiated from the rest of the wall face, usually by projecting slightly. |
