Which bond type uses alternating headers and stretchers in successive courses?

• A. English Bond
• B. Flemish Bond
• C. Running Bond
• D. Stack Bond

Answer: (A)

This question tests knowledge of brickwork bond patterns and how headers and stretchers are arranged across courses. In English Bond, each course is all one type: a course of headers followed by a course of stretchers, and this sequence repeats up the wall. That means headers are used in one horizontal layer, then stretchers in the next, alternating as you go up. This arrangement provides good tying of the wall structure because the headers in one course connect with the bricks in the courses above and below.

Flemish Bond, by contrast, places headers and stretchers within the same course, pairing them along the face of the wall, not switching the whole course type from one layer to the next. Running Bond uses only stretchers with a consistent offset, and Stack Bond stacks bricks with joints aligned in a grid, not alternating by course. So the described pattern—alternating headers and stretchers in successive courses—best fits English Bond.