Curious: Why do you want to remove it?
Kitchen is 1 side of the chimney and lounge / diner is other side of chimney, it’s presently stuck in the middle acting as a divider. Nice big room other side of chimney.
But problem is that the kitchen is so narrow it’s like a galley kitchen, can only fit appliances and units on 1 side of the room, very minimal storage. Feel it’s rediculously tiny.
If it say width of kitchen is around 1.5 wide it wouldn’t be far off and from what I can see as above it doesn’t appear to involve much structure.
Was mentioned about ridge beam being embedded in it, it doesn’t appear to be but could be wrong, seems to be similar to how you cut out trusses to install roof windows like velux, with a section cut out and the trusses braced across between them.
But will get a structural engineer to check it out.
In terms of why going to the trouble to do the change, that’s a complicated answer but boils down to because of the amount of other work required, from plumbing, heating, electrics, windows, insulation...new ceiling in lounge due to it not being flat because of prior water damage and lath and plaster... bathroom, kitchen... house will be practically pulled apart internally, and with the cost of everything else... it doesn’t seem like too much of an extra cost to pull a chimney to improve the kitchen size.
I’m not a property developer, it was purchased by my parents a very long time ago as a holiday bungalow, it’s only 2 bedroom... so not large, when me and my brother was younger, and over the years the house fell into an uninhabitable state... my parents were going to move there and do things bit by bit in retirement... but my dad passed away from leukaemia last year so it never happened and now the house is neither rentable or saleable for anywhere near it’s true value.
Some things I will need to engage trades like rendering the outside after insulation installed, fit boiler, need to do quite a few building notifications etc.
So not looking to cut corners by removing chimneys without structural engineer or notification if that’s what’s required. Just trying to get an idea of what needs to be done.
But since I initially posted this my uncle also passed away last week with no will or family of his own, with a few property in a similar state... went to one of them on weekend and ceiling is down because of a frozen pipe and a large cold water storage tank leaking it’s contents so our bungalow has had to be put on hold for a while longer... need to try and get his houses sorted and rented first now.
So While I’m not a propert developer going to end up as one for quite some time now