It was two years ago when the cracks began to appear during a dry spell at a 16th-century hall in Norfolk.
Now the owner of Old Hall at Tilney All Saints, near King's Lynn, has been given the go-ahead to carry out remedial works because of subsidence.
Gil Morais has been granted planning permission to underpin a gable wall at the hall.
A planning statement said: "The proposal seeks to undertake remedial works to the existing property due to damage created by subsidence.
"The existing building is a residential dwelling which is in good condition."
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The statement says the exterior of the grade II-listed building will not be altered by the work, which be carried out below ground level.
The two-storey hall stands in open countryside on Whitecross Lane South, some distance from the village.
A structural report says it was built in the 1550s on land where the water table varies and the ground can shrink in dry weather.
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