Pargeting is a decorative render applied to the façades of buildings, which is seen to its best effect on sunny days when light and shade on its three-dimensional form leads to subtle changes in the appearance of a building from hour to hour. Its use stretches back many centuries, and while it may comprise simple, fairly dateless patterns scratched into the surface when soft, opulent hand-modelled forms became particularly fashionable in the 17th century. These were inspired by the dramatic work on Henry VIII’s Nonsuch
