S Burkey wrote:
Currently redesigning the basement kitchen in a victorian terrace (4
floors) and decided to open up the inglenook primarily to deal with
some damp problems in the kitchen as a whole.

Had the chimney sweep come last week and now we're trying to figure
out how to clean the brickwork at the back of the inglenook.

An inglenook in a Victorian terrace? Can you describe it in a bit more
detail? Are the bricks soft, or hard? What about the mortar, has it
been re-done? What are you doing with it a=fter it's "cleaned"?