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Ours was like this, but the bricks were end on, so the builder had to build new piers on either side to support the steel. Also had to reinforce under the floor where the new piers were sitting.
My builder thought the whole thing was overkill and wooden uprights and a flitch beam would have been fine, but we had already had everything drawn up by an engineer.
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The plan is to open it up. Original hypothesis on observing that the wall was plasterboard was it had originally been opened up in the past, then filled back in. To be clear a builder is doing all this!