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OK, I did some measuring yesterday. The height (bottom of the wood beam, from the hearth) is 670mm. The wood beam is only 100mm deep. If shielding it is an option, then I would prefer this to taking the wood beam out as we are not planning on decorating/plastering this room for some time.

Thanks, I'll have a read. What makes you think it would be 90's? As far as I know, it's original to the house build (1936), and was converted to some horrid 70's electric fireplace. When the previous owner moved in, he reinstated the original fireplace - I think he did add/replace the wood...

Don't suppose you have any photos do you?

OK thanks. Is there anywhere I can view the current fire/building controls? I don't mean to sound ignorant here, but the current fire/building regs are new rules for new builds. The same strict rules would not have been around when the house was built (1936), yet the fireplace would have been...

It has definitely been used as an open fire by previous owners. I know this because they told us so, there were ashes in the basket, the brickwork is sooted, and the underside of the wood is also a bit charred. We had a sweep round who cleaned the chimney - said the chimney itself was drawing...

Call a gas safe for what? Advice, or a quote? Just need to know what options I have first.

Can get measurements later. You can see it on this photo - if that helps at all? https://imgur.com/JoSinHH

We recently bought a house, which has an open fireplace in the dining room, with a wood beam above it. We've not used it since we moved in, but the previous owners did. The chimney sweep advised against using it until we have "fireproofed" it. At the moment, there is just a sheet of steel on...