The cottage now has an overcoat. Getting up-close and personal with the fabric is a little upsetting though to be honest, the amount of rotten timber cladding and the appalling state of the windows, did not come as a great surprise.
There’s not much left of the cills! 
In places, the timber cladding literally crumbles in your hand, but the frame appears to be sound.
the next phase of work can probably be described as “surgical deconstruction”!
Leigh Hill Progress 