We live in an old stone built farmhouse in S W France, thought l would decorate the room we use as an office. Stripped off the old wallpaper and revealed this !
Fill it and forget it or move house ?
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If it's like my French stone house, the walls are about 3ft thick, and that's a century of settling. I see some houses with entire walls strapped on with iron bars to prevent them toppling over. I've got a few small cracks on the walls, but nothing that a bit of polyfilla and white emulsion won't hide until I'm too old to care. (My guess is that a French builder with experience of old houses wouldn't call it a crack unless you can get at least a finger or two well into it).
Back in Devon, I had a structural engineer come to look at my cob house, as there are some cracks, but he was happy that it was settling/compression rather than shearing - that's the one you have to look out for in cob.
tl;dr - cover it up and pretend you never saw it!!
