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When that render came off you should have seen the state of the bricks underneath.

The cement render that extends up the wall is over the top of lime render - the bricks that I have seen are just covered in lime mortar, but otherwise undamaged.

The foot of the wall has 10 inches of hardened cement rendered directly onto brick - I don't knows if this is a period feature, but a lot of other similarly aged houses have it, and it looks weathered - and removing this in bulk is going to destroy the faces of the bricks.

I'll render the side wall in lime again, but need to make a decision on the hardened cement parging - either remove it, damage the brick, and render in lime, or decide that it's period, supposed to be there, not contributing to the damp, and leave well alone.