Historic Scotland - Stewarton

Paterae: A round or oval shaped disk, often enriched with ornament.
Piended: The main block has a piended (hipped ) slate roof, while the single-storey
wings have skew (sloping) gable s.
Skew – Skewputt:
(Scottish) the sloping tabling which caps a gable and is upstanding above the plane of
the roof. The skew end is the larger, usually square bottom stone of a skew, which holds
the sloping stones in place. The skew end does not project over the wallhead, unlike a
Steading: The brans, stables, cattle-yards, etc., of a farm; -- called also onstead ,
farmstead , farm offices , or farmery . [ Prov. Eng. & Scot.]
Stugged: Used to describe a flat stone surface which has had regularly-spaced small
indentations made on it.
Tetrastyle: Tet'ra·style adjective [ Latin tetrastylon , Greek ... with four pillars in front;
te`tra- (see Tetra- ) + ... a column.] (Architecture) Having four columns in front; -- said of a
temple, portico, or colonnade. -- noun A tetrastyle building.
Vermiculated: a tooling on the face of stone which appears as worm tracks. Can carry
ghosted outlines eg a face or figure. Similar to frost work.
voussoirs: stones or bricks used in the construction of an arch. Usually wedge shaped.
Wallhead: The top of a masonry wall. On the inside this can sometimes be seen from the
roof space. Related Words: Masonry .
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