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Sorry I meant brick fancy bits!

They are not cavity walls. They appear to vary between two and three and a half feet thick. The front is faced in rectangular stone blocks with brisk fancy bits on the corners and around the windows but the sides and back seem to more random lumps of stone with mortar holding it all together...

It is mainly external walls, the exception being the recess around the bathroom door - though the bathroom would be more subject than most to condensation I suppose. We did have some problems with damp coming down the chimney, now fixed by fitting a cowl, but not anywhere near the plaster...

We have several rooms relatively recently replastered, well in the last few years, and the metal corner strips (whatever the proper name for them may be!) around all the window and door recesses seem to be rusting. The rusty colour is coming through the plaster and paint and in the worst areas...