This covers bricklaying, painting and decorating, plastering and plumbing.
Garlanded bucrania provide a repetitive motif in the plasterwork of the fine 18th century Staircase Hall of The Vyne (Hampshire), inside the Pantheon at Stourhead (Wiltshire) and at Lacock Abbey (Wiltshire).
The ceiling draws on contemporary interest in the excavations at Pompeii and Herculaneum, with plasterwork by Giuseppe Cortese.
The finely detailed decorative plasterwork throughout the mansion was entirely the work of the English artist Joseph Rose.
This was designed by Theodore Komisarjevsky, a set designer, making use of ornamental plasterwork by Clark and Fenn.
The main interior hall, of two-story height with staircase to an upper landing, has plasterwork in Rococo style.
Its grand ceiling – with Neptune, shells and mermaids in high relief plasterwork of Wedgwood style – is said to be the work of Roberts of Oxford circa 1725, though some accounts attribute it to carver William Perritt.
Built work of the 1920s includes a new entrance hall at Killerton, Devon in 1924 for the Aclands and, together with his wife, who did the astonishing plasterwork, a late Arts and Crafts work at Wardington Manor for Beaumont (Montie) Pease, (later 1st Baron Wardington) from 1917.
Strapwork became popular in England in the late 16th and 17th centuries as a form of plasterwork decorative moulding used particularly on ceilings, but also sculpted in stone for example around entrance doors, as at Misarden Park (1620), Gloucestershire, or on monumental sculpture, as on the frieze of the monument to Sir John Newton (d.1568), at East Harptree, Gloucestershire, and on that of Sir Gawen Carew (d.1575) in Exeter Cathedral.