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It's in the longer term plan* - There's no doubt all sorts of crap under the floorboards, if the other room (with the same flooring) is anything to go by.
I've already pulled out bits cement through the airbrick hole (where there was a missing brick).
I'm also aware that the concrete in the front garden abuts the cement parging, which means the DPC has been breached since forever - And which contributes to the long-term damp problem in the bay (the stone windowsill with no run-off or drip groove caused plenty of problems, but has been remedied by and large).
* Lift all the boards along the outer wall, strip the plaster (lime, with a skim of gypsum, probably with cement slapped on too at some point) up to a height of ~80cm, clear the rubble & trim any damp joists, install airbricks, move the dwarf wall away from the external wall. Rather than re-plastering, it will be cupboarded in, keeping the walls bare with a stud in front. The bay will have a seat box in it.
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Could you lift a floorboard or to by the window and see the condition underneath? Damp soil/rubble collecting