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Hovis-
This type of thing:
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We left it to dry for a few weeks, the got the decorator round who complained that there were huge cracks all the way across two of the walls and this would add time and cost to the job.
Agreed that he would be recompensed by the builder who did the bonding and plastering (helped that they knew each other).
Decorator did a good job using two part filler and it looked mint when finished.
Few weeks later those cracks appeared (and a couple of others I've not pictured).
That room was the worst but we also had quite a few cracks when the hall was done.
ChasnotRobert
I've had this done this extensively in our Victorian house. No major problems but expect some cracking as it dries out and generally shifts around.
It was already expensive (we've ended up doing most of a 5 bedroom townhouse in various stages), to do the whole thing in lime mortar / lime plaster etc would have been massive.