Small gated entrance leads to the overgrown front garden...
Granite steps and wall capping stones all earmarked for later use...
It took just 3 hours to extract 20 tonnes of spoil...
Marking out for and the start of underpinning work...
Retaining wall foundation trench dug and position of steps marked out. Note also original tape bound electricity mains cables and redundant, rusty steel gas supply pipe...
Retaining wall takes shape...
Hollow blocks, with steel re-inforcing bar, ready for concreat...
Underpinning work in progress. Whilst it might seem that excavation works are quite close to the outside wall of the house, the ground level inside was actually well below the living room floor level...
I used the boundary wall capping stones for these steps...still showing the lead filled holes where the railings had been taken for the war effort.
Retaining wall also rendered...
More granite steps in place for side access.
The drystone wall foundation stones go in...
Blacksmith crafted, bespoke railings finish the job very nicely...
