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A ghost building on Robertson Street in Glasgow. I love all the different phases visible in the stone and brickwork, especially the window at the top right which is made from blonde sandstone and then has been half filled with red bricks and half with concrete blocks, presumably at different times. This effect may have taken between 100 and 150 years to create.
@thisismyglasgow
Looks like plaster with carved stone pattern.
@thisismyglasgow Fascinating. It's quite hard to reconstruct the history. Two weird things: the blocked windows still appear to have their sills protruding, and I can't imagine how the ridge beam of the now-demolished house was held up. Plus why the first set of blockings used at least 3 different kinds of bricks!
@carusb Indeed. One of the other bits that got me wondering was the part of the sandstone wall right at the bottom that seems to be much older than the rest of it. 
@thisismyglasgow and that one satellite(?) dish?
@kristinHenry Yes, a bit weird isn't it. And its surrounded by tall buildings so I've no idea how it would ever have got a signal.
@thisismyglasgow I'm in
San Francisco, and we have some similar patterns, though not so old. But some of my favorite sites are when we see the traces of past neighbors and businesses.
@thisismyglasgow there's fully the same effect as this in Edinburgh, on the Royal Mile, visible from the Camera Obscura. It's humbling in a way.
Love it. I took this one inside the wall of a medieval town in Portugal.
@Susan60 Love that, too!