Ppffftt!

I'd like to qualify that with the fact that in the US, at least in my area, brick means these hardened red clay things that are about 2" by 2" by 8". A wall large enough for a house made solely from them (even with some mortar holding them together ) would not stand. The vast majority of ``brick'' houses in the US are still stick-frame houses with a brick facade tied to them.

So my statement was meant to indicate that the type of brick walls/facades you see in the US could not possibly hold up without some sort of underlying structure. You can attribute the fact that it did not come off that way solely with my complete lack of knowledge of British building methods.

Of course, if you folks over in the UK are making buildings solely out of these sorts of bricks (one would assume by extending their depth by some sort of three-dimensional bond), I stand hugely corrected.