The "repair" (more like rebuild) of the front wall is finished and we fitted the last of the new windows last weekend. Unfortunately the old wall was just too wonky for a simple repair as it didn't run in anything approaching a straight line. Brian had to take the outer skin of the wall down in sections and rebuild it, using the original stone as much as possible. Some of the older parts of the wall were dry-stone wall. The window to the right of the door is located in the old doorway, rather than try and conceal this we made the decision to retain the feature as part of the history of the house, so the new block-work (replacing some old messy concrete) was simply rendered. When we took out the old concrete we found the original doorstep underneath, unfortunately it was too damaged to remove and re-use elsewhere. All that's left for the front now is lime-washing and re-building the porch. We are also planning on replacing the plastic guttering with something nicer once the porch is in place.
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