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<\/a><\/p>\nI had been tidying up the edges but tidied a bit too much and knocked some of the render off.\u00a0\u00a0 Underneath a lot of brown dust came out revealing wood in very poor condition.\u00a0\u00a0 A little more knocking and some of the original frame was exposed complete with wattle and daub infill panels on the first floor. (The frame has brick infill above and has been completely replaced with bricks on the ground floor).<\/p>\n
Thee timber frame passes right through the chimney.\u00a0 I think the frame was modified to accept a chimney which was added later.\u00a0 Structurally it seems a poor idea to hold the chimney up with beetle infested wood.<\/p>\n
In for a penny, in for a pound.\u00a0\u00a0 It isn’t the neatest frame in the world and would probably never have been exposed.\u00a0\u00a0 The wattle and daub infill is flush with the frame and there is no sign of whitewash so it was probably rendered from new.<\/p>\n The earliest layer of render we found was lime on lath, but the Edwardians appear to have added a layer of cement render which prevented the wood from drying, then more recent muppets added waterproof paint.<\/p>\n I haven’t uncovered the whole of the top of the frame yet as the render appears to be performing a structural role.\u00a0 The other side of the frame can be seen in the attic photos<\/a>.<\/p>\n The whole frame is completely rotten (apart from a single post and the beam above the first floor which are merely half rotten).\u00a0\u00a0 The frame has been soaking wet for a very long time and a screwdriver can easily be poked all the way through any of the timbers.\u00a0 The wattle has rotten away completely and the infill panels are loose.\u00a0 There is very little that can be saved.<\/p>\n<\/a><\/p>\n<\/a><\/p>\n<\/a><\/p>\n