What's this gutter shelf called? And what sort of gutter is needed?

[drongo]

See the picture attached. The top of the wall has three stepped layers of brick making a sort of shelf for the gutter to sit on. What's that called? Does it have a name? The house is around 1900 build. 40 years ago there was a wooden gutter with a flat bottom sitting directly on the shelf. (As far as I recall - it was a long time ago.)
It was rotten and was replaced with the plastic gutter in the picture. That's not ideal because the brackets make the gutter sit too high. And it can't cope with a heavy rainstorm.

Don't know what sort of gutter was there originally. I'm thinking of replacing with something with a flat bottom but don't know if it would need brackets to hold it in place.

Any advice would be much appreciated

Tom

 

[Nige F]

Have a google for square line gutter - clips are needed @ 900mm centres.

 

[datarebal]

its a brick corbel, Take a look at some of the metal gutter profiles...

 

[Alastairreid]

https://www.rainclear.co.uk/guttering/snapit-aluminium-gutters/moulded-ogee.html

 

[^woody^]

The brickwork is oversailing, not a corbel, and that would be for design not for a support

From 1900, the gutter would typically have been cast iron. Timber box gutter with lead lining are from centuries earlier.

New gutter would be off brackets not the brickwork. Squareflow would do, but that looks like what it is now.

 

[datarebal]

It is a Brick Corbel system and can indeed be a method to form a shelf as in this case

 

[drongo]

Cor Blimey! It's a corbel. Thank you all so much for taking the trouble to explain.

 

[Nige F]

The brickwork is oversailing,

. Squareflow would do, but that looks like what it is now.

Damn my eyes - you're right

 

[catlad]

Cast iron ogee is almost certainly what was there originally.
Alistair has given you a good link. Woody

 

[Leofric]

Eaves details can be formed in brickwork in various forms such as corbel and dentil, corbel and houndstooth for example,

this eaves is one course of corbelled headers on two courses of corbelled stretchers.​