Feltwell
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The house was built with lime mortar & plaster throughout. There is some original cement here - the hallway floor / cellar roof is concrete - but everywhere else it's lime. It varies by area, but certainly out here in the uncharted backwaters of rural Shropshire cement mortar for bricklaying wasn't really common until 1930's / 1940's.
I think I've come to the conclusion to do this properly in the spring once the frosts have passed - get some scaffolding put up, cut out & replace the spalled bricks, check & if necessary renew the flaunching, repoint the whole top of the stack in lime - and cover those "shoulders" in lead.
I think I've come to the conclusion to do this properly in the spring once the frosts have passed - get some scaffolding put up, cut out & replace the spalled bricks, check & if necessary renew the flaunching, repoint the whole top of the stack in lime - and cover those "shoulders" in lead.