Advice/quotes on rising damp, drainage issues, roof, ceiling and more

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  Our old and tiny 1 br cottage (painted brick c.1900) has a few issues and has had some nasty DIY work done before we acquired it. Rising damp has recently appeared in the bedroom wall (internal/shared) and seems to be a problem in the external wall. There are some issues with the roof including dodgy past repairs to the brickwork on the roof ridge (shared wall), dodgy roofing repairs and guttering, drainage having been redirected to the courtyard rather than the street, and repair work needed to the internal roof timber supports. We'd like to rip up the concrete and nasty small garden beds in the very small courtyard and get some proper drainage put in that redirects down the side path to the street, and get the courtyard paved. The tap drainage out there is set too high and needs to be lowered. We'd also like to change the laundry (don't need it), bathroom (currently a wet room with no door, electrical outlets or fan ventilation), and kitchen (it's nasty, and extractor fan appears to simply feed into the roof space) and there is quite a dodgy ceiling throughout starting to show some cracks. It is possible bad drainage is leading to structural movement in the external walls but there is also a large orange tree in the courtyard (which we'd like to keep).

We'd like some advice from someone who knows about old buildings and Adelaide City Council development guidelines and could advise on what, if anything, we would be able to do here, ie if we could make any structural or layout changes, including potentially adding an extra room (high ceilings or rejigging laundry) or using the roof space for storage, and would like some quotes on things eg cost of fixing roof, cost of fixing backyard, cost of fixing ceiling, cost of redoing bathroom, cost of adding an extra room, cost of doing it all and whether that is possible. We'd like to start fixing things up but don't want to fix little things if we could potentially include it all in a larger renovation - but we need advice on what we could do, both structurally and in line with Council approvals. We are one side of a cottage duplex with an extended zig-zagging shared wall (our place is single fronted to the street and double width in the middle and one and a half width at the back). The house is not heritage listed and is Torrens titled.