One of the internal walls has had to come down. It already had a couple of bricked up doorways in it and trying to make two new doorways just introduced the risk that it was going to destabilise the wall. The decision was taken earlier in the week to take it down and replace it with blockwork. By Wednesday, the new wall had started to re-appear. Fingers crossed, it will be finished this week. While the wall is being re-built, the roof is being propped up. This saves having to dismantle the roof, but it does look a little precarious.
The stone from the wall is very similar (if not identical) to the other internal wall that we had to remove last week. It is likely that this stone will be reused on one of the internal walls in the kitchen (when that is built as part of phase 2). So the mound of stone in the back field just grows bigger.
The start of a new wall between number 9 and number 10 – there were just too many alterations in the existing wall for it to be safe.
The new wall seen from the other direction. Zep conducts his daily inspection of the building once the builders have gone home (looking for any leftover pasties!). Note the tie beam on the king post truss in the background (the big beam running horizontally). This is going to be replaced as part of the renovation. The carpenter tells me that he thinks that this beam is original.
some of the best stone that we have found so far. Fairly square and pretty regular. We wll probably use this for the internal wall in the kitchen as part of the phase 2 build.