Upgrading of single skin wall

[Mathilde]

We are thinking of purchasing a period cottage (exact date unknown but somewhere 19th century) which has single skin exterior walls. Obviously it will be very difficult, if not impossible, to find a lender who will touch it - so the query is, is there a way of upgrading a single skin wall so that mortgage companies won't have a problem with it? I'm thinking of a scenario where they hold back a tranche of the mortgage until the upgrading works have been completed and inspected. Is there anyone who can shed light on this?

 

[MikeG]

Single skin of what? Brick? How thick is this wall?

 

[88v8]

Welcome to the forum.

Most pre-1930 houses have solid walls.
But they are perfectly mortgageable.

And many houses the age of ours (1620) are single skin. As in half-a-brick. So....... ?

As Mike has said, can you expand on the construction?

Do vaguely recall a thread about a toll house (?) that someone was thinking of buying where the walls were half a brick.
This isn't it, but same topic
http://www.periodproperty.co.uk/forum/viewtopic.php?f=1&t=15040&p=207155&hilit=single+skin+wall#p207155
and this
http://www.periodproperty.co.uk/forum/viewtopic.php?f=1&t=13120&p=178136&hilit=single+skin+wall#p178136
Search on 'single skin wall' for more.

Ivor

 

[Zebra]

When you say single skin, if you mean brick, is it four and a half inches thick, or nine inches?