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Getting rid of the chimney breast means freeing up the wall to just be a plain wall. It doesn't make much sense to me to add back a feature which will prevent you putting furniture there etc. If you like it and want to keep it, then adding it to a retained chimney breast in a different room that has had its fireplace removed sounds ideal. (But more work if you are wanting to actually open up the fireplace again to look 'right' even if you don't want to use it - you don't have to of course, you can just fix it on with a blank fireplace.)
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Architect did indeed roll his eyes. I'm a little torn. The chimney breast on ground floor is going, for good reasons, and he wants to get rid of it on first floor too. But I don't want to lose a nice original feature. Totally fine with it being a bit fake and against a wall with no actual chimney behind though. Other option is to put it in our main bedroom, where there would have been one, but has long since been removed.