The façade was decorated with ornamental brickwork and terracotta details.
There are however a few large and careful terracotta figures of more significance.
A long, low, red terracotta building, it featured steep-pitched roof and clock-crowned central tower, rising above a graceful colonnaded entrance and flanked by smaller turrets.
There was a portico, generally of wood, with posts supporting beams, and decoration was in terracotta.
The dimensional regularity of rough masonry may have had varying standards in the 1870s, but here accuracy was necessary to assure the fit of the custom terracotta facings.
The table also contains the results of tests on a 6-inch hollow terracotta wall.
The terracotta army has been given its orders.
At one time the missing caryatid was replaced by a terracotta replica.