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Sounds a bit like my place.
and I get to learnt how to render in lime and build a wooden scaffold
It's a great skill to learn. Not nearly enough people know how to do it properly so trying to get availability from a specialist is always a headache, never mind the money you can save by doing it yourself.
Vanneau
+ gypsum plaster.
We've the perfect storm - cross bonded solid wall, no damp membrane barrier (too early for plastic, too cheap for slate).
In the intervening years, the ground has been raised, and an impermeable (I mean, ffs) path laid, cement parging and render, blocked air vents, cement pointing, lead flashing removed, cement fillets added, gutters damaged and full of debris, and on the inside, engineered floorboards, gypsum plaster, double glazed units.
The drip groove under the front window had even been skimmed over, so rain water just flows down the spalled brickwork.
Surveyor's report showed barely half of it...
It's all fixable though, and I get to learnt how to render in lime and build a wooden sacffold.