Piended

The wall head is finished with a stone cornice, over which is a dado course, having a carved design wrought on face where over staircase wings, and cut stone finials are placed at each piended angle of the staircases.

There are other kinds of hewing also adopted in dressing of stone, such as scabbled, striped, grooved, fluted and piended.

Another distinctive late eighteenth-century development, based on the availability of imported timber and of cheaper slates, was the use of piended (hipped) roofs.