thanks bobasd, with the footings I guess that will mean removing a dozen or so of the cut footing bricks and then replacing with new. What would you recommend for bedding them on? You can see in the photo that the existing bottom course of the footings bricks appear to be on crushed red brick...
Probably just clean it up, perhaps lay a new slab and use it as storage, for now anyway. Next door (same building) have done a full width basement conversion and dropped the floor a couple of feet, tanked it etc.
Maybe sometime in the future we may do that but for now I just need the cellar...
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Around 10+ years ago the previous owners of our 120 year old Victorian house had planned to convert the cellar into a extended basement, they had plans drawn up, a planning application put together, a number of quotes and even had dug 5 trial pits in the cellar - they decided not to...