What are these hooks in the brickwork outside?

[ninkyno]

Last thread of the night- promise!

Have fallen in love with a period property but I've noticed these iron hooks between the bricks on the outside of the house- what are they?

They're everywhere. Does this mean the property was previously underpinned (and these hooks used to keep everything together IYSWIM)?

Nah. To thread wires through for a climbing plant

Trellis for plants

Honeysuckle?

Are they to hold wires to support a climbing plant? I’m thinking of the photo where they are in a zig zag pattern?

Is it 1920s (going on what can be seen in the pics)?

If they're on multiple walls and they're as robust as they look I wouldn't have thought they were for trellises. However sometimes folks do odd things to their houses/ use inappropriate hardware!

Hopefully someone will be along soon who knows.

By "everywhere", do you mean on every single external wall?

@JanglyBeads

By "everywhere", do you mean on every single external wall?

Came here looking for something to make me smile before bed, wasn't expecting this thread to be it.

Now have visions of them being everywhere, on the ceilings, in the toilet, up the stairs...

Sorry op no help, good night.

They look like vine eyes - you stretch wires horizontally between them for plants to climb up. Just imagine having a lovely climbing rose, clematis or honeysuckle up there....

Surely they’re for growing your Virginia Creeper up the house.

I reckon Wisteria or a massive rambling rose.

Trellis.

Hmmmm, there's no sign or any kind of marks on the bricks to suggest there was once a creeper type plant growing over them... these are solid iron hooks dotted all the way around the outside of the (Edwardian) property.

@JanglyBeads

By "everywhere", do you mean on every single external wall?

Yes- it's a semi-detached and there were all around the 3 external walls. The inside is a different (renovation) story altogether :/

Agree they're vine eyes for growing plants.

If you go to Google street view and look back in history you might find there used to be a massive climbing plant all over the house.

Hang your Christmas lights up?

This is where you need @pigletjohn.

@HollowTalk

This is where you need *@pigletjohn*.

@pigletjohn- please help.

For climbing plants. We've removed one recently and the only evidence left is the hooks.

@ninkyno

Hmmmm, there's no sign or any kind of marks on the bricks to suggest there was once a creeper type plant growing over them... these are solid iron hooks dotted all the way around the outside of the (Edwardian) property.

They're for the sort of climber that needs a support, not one like ivy that has roots which cling to the wall.

I wonder if they could be the ends of some form of wall tie, actually

I inherited similar. There used to be clematis growing up the wall it got very old so I pulled it down to replace it. No evidence it was ever there. There was garden wiring threaded through which the plant was attached to as it grew.

I had a few and we could see a direct line to the old back shed so I assumed it was once where the washing line had been tied.

Mine would have been in a useful place to hang outside lamps as well to light your way to the coal hole/toilet.

Trellis. No evidence of plant against house because there was strong or wire between the pins that the plant clung to. If it was a creeper that attached itself, the pins wouldn't have been needed.

yes, vine eyes

and probably not all that old.

Old ones would be hammered in, probably L shaped, and very very rusty.

Modern ones will be screwed into plasplugs.