I’m looking for opinions on this. It looks like they poured the footing/foundation to short and are using the rock wall for support. The rocks have settled and pulled away from the bottom of the column. I assume the actual column is wood and probably rests on the foundation. Thoughts?
This was a brick veneer home built in 2007.
Wedged brick shelf. If you look/dig around grade at the walls, you should find the same thing. It is not so common at columns, but there is nothing wrong with it. Usually the column base is not visible as in your pic, or the plans call for brick all the way to grade which is more common.
What Jeff said, nothing to worry about. The stones are for the retaining wall, completely independent from the house foundation/structure.
Thanks guys.