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Thanks for you input :) No-one knows the reason the steel is there, speculation is that it was for more strength when originally built as this wall would be the biggest in the building with fewest openings. There is no evidence of steel in any other walls, but there was no evidence of steel...

Hi all, I'm in the process of buying a house. It's an old hall (built 1901) that's been converted to residential. The walls are solid brick walls with originally lime mortar. Over time some patches of the walls have been rendered with ordinary grey sand & cement, for example some years...