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I’ve not seen anything like it, but I’m guessing it was done to fit a full size cupboard and create some counter space.
I had a similar low chimney breast in my kitchen. I put in a higher lintel and routed the extractor ducting up the chimney with an in-line fan accessible via a panel in the bathroom.
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Something like this?
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Do you mean the mysterious bricks on the right? Maybe a second chimney from below?
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My guess is that it's the main fire place and the rest of the alcove of the fire is where logs and pots would have been kept back in the day. A bit like an inglenook.
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I’m in the end stages of buying a house at the moment and it’s got this weird extra bit in the kitchen hearth. Any idea why it’s there at all?
It’d be good to have it removed to fit a nice big cooker, but interested if anyone’s ever seem anything like it?
Early 20th century
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