bulges
in masonry and brickwork. Old walls will often display bulges in masonry and brickwork. There may be many causes for this, including inaccurate construction i.e. not strictly plumb in the first place. Mostly, however, they show some form of structural failure; for example walls pulling away from floor joists, due to settlement etc. Bulging may look dramatic, but is often quite simply remedied by ‘strapping’ the bulge to sound structural parts of the building. Here specially treated steel rods are attached to the stonework/brickwork and then bolted to structural timber members. In extreme cases the wall may need to be taken down are rebuilt. However, sometimes this is done more for aesthetic reasons, than structural ones and in historic buildings will detract from their historic integrity. (Siker, 2018)