I don’t want to knock it all through completely, but at present the second reception room is dead living space and is basically a glorified hallway into the kitchen (although very alive storage space for bikes, among other things). Knocking through into either the living room, or preferably into the kitchen, where we spend most of our time anyway, would be what we’d want to do.
Side extension with knock through into 2nd reception (now "snug").
It's worked out well, although it means no direct natural light into what was the 2nd reception. The entrance is where the window was. But that just makes it more "snug".
I don’t want to knock it all through completely, but at present the second reception room is dead living space and is basically a glorified hallway into the kitchen (although very alive storage space for bikes, among other things). Knocking through into either the living room, or preferably into the kitchen, where we spend most of our time anyway, would be what we’d want to do.