External wall issues
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Cavity walls emerged from the hollow wall bonds that developed as a response to the revised brick tax of 1803. Rat trap, Dearns and Loudan bonds were hollow walls (thought to derive from garden wall bonds), but were not effectively cavity walls as we know them. The rat trap bond...
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