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Thank you for your helpful reply tell80, yeah the pointing is terrible, it will be re-done with a 3.5 lime 1/2 ratio with sharpsand which obviously has more flexibility than cement and allows moisture to exit the brick, and it does seem historical and not current. I will get the chimney done at...

Here is the gable end too - no issues on there or on the back wall of the property

I am looking at a Victorian end terrace, there is however a vertical crack down the left hand side. It does look like there has been some dodgy repointing, with cement instead of lime mortar too, not sure if this could be the cause or merely making a symptom of a problem worse. It doesn't look...