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. I think the house could have been built on a spring as it's name is pump cottage and it used to provide water to the village.The soil is clay and i am in Lincolnshire, I do agree that our ancestors seem to know where to build as my house and a few other old houses are the only ones that...

This is causing a real headache for me, i have a retaining wall that has rising damp, the cottage was built on a spring and has no foundations (1754) the external walls are brick and lime,the internal wall seems to be some type of concrete although i'm not sure what is behind that ( brick and...