scrape

 push the long-handled scraper against the wall, the top layer of paint is scraped off. Again, a bit higher. The same top layer comes down, displaying a lime rendering that may be well over two hundred years old.  Keep scraping, and piece for piece the wall is freed from chalk paint and some probably quite modern dispersion paints, It is strenuous work, dusty too. Sometimes areas of old paintwork come down quite easily, but the smaller areas that are difficult are just frustrating

At the edge of the doorframe see that this had been installed quite late, the plaster just breaks away revealing the wooden laths holding the frame. This will need to be covered over with the new render. It should not be a problem, but it most probably will be.

Go to the next wall, start scraping. With a noise and a cloud of dust a large area of paint and filler breaks away from the wall.

that was easy.

This is silly work, but it is an old house that needs repairs.

The first person recorded as living here was a jeweller.

He was called Lobelin.

It was 1516 A.D.