Is It 1895 Here?

Our windows are made in the old style, and therefore lack wind-mouldings. This means that the outside face of the window-frame is flush, and butts-up behind the brick-veneer outside skin. Therefore it has been possible to do some brickwork before all the windows arrived. Of course, this is risky -- you have to get the brickwork dimensions correct, and it has to be a smooth finish on the inside face of the brickwork. (With contemporary wind-mould-style windows, the inside face of the brickwork can be roughly finish, as the wind-moulding protrudes through the aperture slightly, covering any sins in the brickwork).

Below is a photo of the brickwork, with four locations for windows. If you exclude the blue building-paper, it looks like it could be 1895, as this is the way it was done then (you don't often see brickwork go up before the windows go in these days).


The east-side brickwork very near completion.