Monk bond may however take any of a number of arrangements for course staggering.

The roof is half-hipped at the south end and hipped at the north, with painted brickwork in monk bond.

The external brickwork facing is unusual in that it employs Monk bond coursing which is rarely used.

If the bricklayer frequently stops to check that bricks are correctly arranged, then masonry in a raking Monk bond can be expensive to build.

The great variety of Monk bond patterns allow for many possible layouts at the quoins, and this particular is variously planned and executed.

Elsewhere, raking courses in Monk bond may be staggered in such a way as to generate a subtle appearance of indented pyramid-like diagonals.

The brickwork in Monk bond at Guildford Cathedral sandwiches a queen closer between two heading bricks at the quoins.

Such an example of a raking Monk bond layout is shown in the New Malden Library, Kingston upon Thames, Greater London.

Many other particular adjustments of course alignment exist in Monk bond, generating a variety of visual effects which differ in detail, but often having the effect of directing a viewing eye diagonally down the wall.

Occasionally, brickwork in such a raking Monk bond may contain minor errors of header and stretcher alignment some of which may have been silently corrected by incorporating a compensating irregularity into the brickwork in a course further up the wall.