Do old lead pipe's ever wiped onto cast iron?

[jarnty]

I have an old Victorian building with a bath with an old lead pipe connected to the cast iron drain pipe outside , i just need to if is likely to be wiped 'soldered' directly on to the iron or is it most likely that there is a brass fitting that the lead is wiped onto before the cast iron drain pipe?

 

[Best]

Hi & welcome to the forum!
Hard to say without photos. The lead waste is unlikely to be soldered to cast iron. Sometimes the cast iron stack was sealed with molten lead at joints, but not usually lead pipes.
Often waste pipes to baths & basins if any great length were done in cast iron & the lead waste pipe just went the short distance & to inside the larger cast pipe a few inches.

 

[newcastle phill]

Unusual. They normally drop into a cast iron hopper half way up.
Does it look like there was a cast iron hopper there.
Tell tale marks are a number of wooden pegs in the mortar where it would have been attached with perhaps cleaner looking brickwork in that area.

Cant think ive seen a lead pipe straight into a cast iron but I havent had 5 coffees yet and its still early 😉