dress stone

noun, stones added to the front of a house for aesthetic purposes

“I had him look at the garage because there’s a wall in the middle that we were wondering who built it, and when was it built. And he figured it was probably built by the French because of the way the stone is put together. And then the corners, because they were dress stone, he thought would have been built by the British. We found a date one of the dress stones. It’s 1822.”