The Toby Jug Tea Shop is based in Whalley (Ribble Valley) Lancashire. It was originally a 16C farm house and attached barn. There is internal oak panaling in the building for the local Whalley Abbey. As you will see in the photos below the front elevation has not weathered well with the cement pointing.

I have put quite a few photos of the elevation with the cement pointing on, as it is one of the worst i have seen.

Cement mortar broken off.

Cement pointing detached from stones. You can see in this photo how the rain water is trapped between the stone and cement joint.

Window lintels exposed.

We also replaced the windows frames on this elevation, very rotten (not saveable).

Window frame decayed.

Growth of weeds at ground level throught the pointing.

We carfully removed the cement pointing from the elevation using hand tools. The void were packed and using a lime putty based mortar.

The elevation was also pointed in a lime putty based mortar because of the soft Lancashire sand stone.

The elevation had to be sheeted with hessian to prevent the lime mortar from drying to quickly.

New lime pointing to sand stone, beat back finish.

The cement pointing from the garden was removed.