Quoin header
A quion is the exterior angle or corner of a wall, the quoin header is the brick end at the corner, whilst the quoin stretcher is the side of the brick at the corner. Sometimes the corner is expressed with larger stones or bricks, known as stone quoins or quoins bricks.
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