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Thanks for the above thoughts.
@TW it’s in Cornwall and is a mid-terrace early 1900s property. All of the houses in the terrace have been extended on the backs between 50s-80s.
The previous owner bought the property in 2018 and did so with a mortgage. We will give the surveyor a call about it tomorrow morning to talk it through and also check with our solicitor to see if they can find out what kind of survey the previous buyer had.
@princeperch I’ve shared pictures with a number of builder friends and I also have quite a lot of experience of working on old properties and my sense after multiple visits (as well as my friends’ who I shared the pics with) was it was something to keep an eye on rather than to be unduly worried about. But obviously nothing will compare to actually getting an engineer to have a look and sign it off. My partner and I are both on the same page about not jumping into a bad situation unnecessarily.
The surveyor is very experienced and I am hopeful that his optimism is due to not seeing it as a concern rather than negligence. Like I say we’ll have a chat with him tomorrow.
If it comes to having to pay for an engineer visit I’m sure the seller will be accommodating - we previously had to get a mundic survey unexpectedly and they were very helpful and open during all of those hijinks.